1st Edition
Francis Bedford, Landscape Photography and Nineteenth-Century British Culture The Artist as Entrepreneur
By Stephanie Spencer
Copyright 2011
216 Pages
by
Routledge
216 Pages
by
Routledge
216 Pages
by
Routledge
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Focusing on one broadly representative figure, Francis Bedford, this study emphasizes how photographs operated to form and transmit cultural ideas and values. The first writing on Bedford since the 1970s, the book examines the work of a man who was one of Victorian England's premier landscape photographers, and also a successful photographic entrepreneur. His fusion of art and commerce illuminates... Read more
Contents: Introduction; The photographer and his setting; Wild North Wales; The healthful Devon coast; The pastoral Midlands; Architecture, religion and architects; The tour of the Middle East, 1862; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Stephanie Spencer is an Associate Professor at North Carolina State University, USA.
'...Recommended.' Choice
'Each subject is well illustrated and there is extensive reference to further reading. Arlis News-sheet
'... the book is likely to be of use to readers interested in the thick history of all kinds of Victorian texts beyond the purely photographic. And if Spencer and Bedford tell us anything, it’s that there’s nothing purely photographic about photography.' Romanticism & Victorianism on the Net
