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03446aam a2200469Ii 4500 001 CBB69A16F5D411E7B33F7C0497128E48 003 SILO 005 20180110010212 008 161118s2017 enka b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 1472431294 020 $a 9781472431295 035 $a (OCoLC)984286930 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d IXA $d OCLCO $d UBY $d OCL $d SILO 043 $a e-uk--- 050 4 $a TR721 $b .D38 2017 050 4 $a QH21.G7 $b D38 2017 082 04 $a 779/.309034 $2 23 100 1 $a Davidson, Kathleen $q (Kathleen Margaret), $e author. 245 10 $a Photography, natural history and the nineteenth-century museum : $b exchanging views of empire / $c Kathleen Davidson. 264 1 $a Abingdon, Oxon ; $b Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, $c 2017. 300 $a xvi, 233 pages : $b illustrations (some color) ; $c 25 cm. 490 1 $a Science and the Arts since 1750 520 8 $a The Victorian era heralded an age of transformation in which momentous changes in the field of natural history coincided with the emergence of photography. During this period, different parts of the British Empire began to actively claim their right to be acknowledged as indispensable contributors to knowledge and the progress of empire. Corresponding with the rise of the modern museum, photography's arrival was timely and it rapidly became an essential technology for recording and publicising rare objects and valuable collections. In Empire, Photography and the Nineteenth-Century Museum, Kathleen Davidson draws on wide-ranging archives and visual material to explore the complex relationship between natural history, photography and museums from the 1850s to the 1880s in Britain and its colonies, principally Australia and New Zealand. This comparative international study investigates how natural history networks transformed conceptions of empire, and the role of photography in that process. In an interrogation that ranges from the first forays into museum photography and early attempts to document scientific expeditions to the importance of traditional and photographic portraiture for the recognition of scientific discoveries, this book not only recasts the parameters of what we actually identify as natural history photography in the Victorian era but also how we understand the very structure of empire in relation to this genre at that time. 500 $a "An Ashgate Book" -- cover. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-226) and index. 650 0 $a Natural history $z Great Britain $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Nature photography $z Great Britain $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Natural history museums $z Great Britain $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Museums $z Great Britain $x History $y 19th century. 651 0 $a Great Britain $x History $x History $y 19th century. 650 7 $a British colonies. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01910374 650 7 $a Museums. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01030128 650 7 $a Natural history. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01034268 650 7 $a Natural history museums. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01034350 650 7 $a Nature photography. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01034687 651 7 $a Great Britain. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204623 648 7 $a 1800-1899 $2 fast 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 830 0 $a Science and the arts since 1750. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191210025337.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=CBB69A16F5D411E7B33F7C0497128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search