Positive Pleasures: Early Photography and Humor

by Bridget Ann Henisch and Heinz K. Henisch

Book Overview

In the year that photography was introduced to the world, 1839, a cartoon in a French broadside showed a gallows for the draftsmen and engravers who would be put out of work by the new medium. This was only the beginning of a long tradition of amused, and amusing, depictions of photography, a practice now reviewed in Heinz and Bridget Henisch's new book.

Positive Pleasures explores the humorous commentary about photography that emerged...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 027101671X
• ISBN13: 9780271016719
• Release Date: March 1998
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 2.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.7" x 11.3"