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Author:   Jordan Bear (University of Toronto)
Publisher:   Pennsylvania State University Press
Imprint:   Pennsylvania State University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   0.862kg
ISBN:  

9780271065014

ISBN 10:   027106501
Pages:   216
Publication Date:   16 February 2015
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction. The History of Photography and the Problem of Knowledge One. See for Yourself: Visual Discernment and Photography’s Appearance Two. Shadowy Organization: Combination Photography, Illusion, and Conspiracy Three. Same Time Tomorrow: Serial Photographs and the Structure of Industrial Vision Four. Hand in Hand: Gender and Collaboration in Victorian Photography Five. Signature Style: Francis Frith and the Rise of Corporate Photographic Authorship Six. Indistinct Relics: Discerning the Origins of Photography Seven. The Limits of Looking: The Tiny, Distant, and Rapid Subjects of Photography Conclusion. “Normal” Photography: The Legacy of a History Notes Bibliography Index

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In an impressive and timely counterpoint to recent emphasis on the archival appropriations of photography, Jordan Bear turns conventional assumptions about belief in photographic realism on their head, showing that, throughout the nineteenth century, claims for photographic verisimilitude were greeted with doubt, distrust, disappointment, and even ridicule, opening the way to other photographic practices--and, indeed, as exemplified by Disillusioned, to another history of photographic production and consumption and to important new insights into the historical formation of the discerning liberal subject. --John Tagg, Binghamton University

Disillusioned will take up a useful place alongside studies like Michael Leja's Looking Askance: Skepticism and American Art from Eakins to Duchamp--scholarship that shifts the art historical priority from production to the active, creative, and socially generative processes of what used to be called mere 'reception.' --Sarah M. Miller, Critical Inquiry

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Jordan Bear is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Toronto.

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