Empire, early photography and spectacle : the global career of showman daguerreotypist J.W. Newland...
Empire, early photography and spectacle : the global career of showman daguerreotypist J.W. Newland...
Empire, early photography and spectacle : the global career of showman daguerreotypist J.W. Newland / Elisa deCourcy and Martyn Jolly.
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.
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H 2021/0162
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English
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xv, 174 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
The Americas : competing photographic practices across shifting political borders -- The Pacific : photographing Indigenous royalty amid British and French imperial tensions -- Australia : daguerrean galleries, dissolving views and visual spectacle -- India : the heart of empire -- Britain and India...
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.
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England
Date Published
2021.
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"James William Newland's (1810-1857) career as a showman daguerreotypist began in the United States but expanded into Central and South America, across the Pacific to New Zealand and colonial Australia and onto India. Newland used the latest developments in photography, theatre and spectacle to create powerful new visual experiences for audiences i...
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Empire, early photography and spectacle : the global career of showman daguerreotypist J.W. Newland / Elisa deCourcy and Martyn Jolly.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Online version DeCourcy, Elisa, 1986- Empire, early photography and spectacle Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021 9781003104780 (DLC) 2020025057
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H 2021/0162
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74VKaMl7Dyoy
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKaMl7Dyoy
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9781350130364 hardback
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772/.12
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991024352519602626
