Nature Exposed: Photography as Eyewitness in Victorian Science

by Jennifer Tucker

In Nature Exposed, Jennifer Tucker studies the intersecting trajectories of photography and modern science in late Victorian Britain. She examines the role of photograph as witness in scientific investigation and explores the interplay between photography and scientific authority.

Almost immediately after the invention of photography in 1839, photographs were characterized as offering objective access to reality--unmediated by human...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421410931
• ISBN13: 9781421410937
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher