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020			_a9781472431295 _q(hardback)
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100	1		_aDavidson, Kathleen _q(Kathleen Margaret), _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aPhotography, natural history and the nineteenth-century museum : _bexchanging views of empire / _cKathleen Davidson.
264		1	_aNew York, NY : _bRoutledge/Taylor & Francis Group, _c2017.
300			_axvi, 233 pages : _billustrations (some color) ; _c25 cm.
490	1		_aScience and the Arts since 1750
500			_aTBH/SINV00482/38 GBP 105.00 "An Ashgate Book" -- cover.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 205-226) and index.
505	0		_aList of illustrations -- Colour plates -- Acknowledgments. Introduction : Rethinking the role of photography in Victorian natural history -- Emerging sites of production: a comparative approach -- Formative visions of empire -- Exchanging views of empire -- From "immutable mobiles" to "boundary objects" -- Making and moving images -- Peripatetic objects of empire and collections at the periphery -- Navigating the archive -- 1. Paper museums: photography and natural history at the British Museum : Introduction -- From institutional priorities to imperial interests -- A virtual inventory of specimens: circulating new knowledge and filling in the gaps -- Private operators and entrepreneurs -- Conclusion. 2. Museum traffic: naturalist correspondents and the advent of photography in the colonial museum : Introduction -- From German settler to cosmopolitan scholar: colonial masculinity and the rise of the self-made man -- Naturalist correspondents, photography and the reframing of natural history -- Expeditionary photography and the "New Traveller's Tales" -- Conclusion -- 3. The rhetoric of exemplarity: portraiture and the naturalist as celebrity : Introduction -- Gentleman amateurs and professional bodies: the social formation of Victorian science -- The naturalist refashioned -- Conclusion -- 4. Nature as spectacle: encountering the moa from Christchurch to Madras via London and Paris : Introduction -- The origin of the natural history collections at the Canterbury Museum -- A new era of the museum begins: the debate over order versus spectacle -- Portraits and the press: the colonial naturalist as publicist -- Conclusion -- Conclusion. References : Archival sources -- Newspapers and periodicals -- Secondary sources.
520	8		_aThe 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-- _cSource other than Library of Congress.
648		7	_a1800-1899 _2fast
650		0	_aNatural history _zGreat Britain _xHistory _y19th century.
650		0	_aNature photography
650		0	_aNatural history museums
650		0	_aMuseums
650		7	_aBritish colonies. _2fast
651		0	_xColonies
830		0	_aScience and the arts since 1750.
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