Today we are so accustomed to seeing photographs wedded to text - whether in the family album or daily newspaper - that the verbal framing of the photograph has become invisible. The text is internalized within the image, and the meaning of the photograph becomes clear and self-evident, as if by the evidence of the photograph itself. In Scenes in a Library, Carol Armstrong explores the experimental moment, at the inception of the new medium, when the word came to haunt the photographic image and the forty or so years - roughly from the 1840s to the 1880sduring which the photographic image alternately resisted and became assimilated by the printed page.
- ISBN10 0585278571
- ISBN13 9780585278575
- Publish Date 14 May 2014 (first published 6 November 1998)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint MIT Press Ltd
- Format eBook
- Language English