Photography & the printed page in the nineteenth century: an exhibition at the Bodleian Library, 27 November 2000 to 31 March 2001

Contents

The pencil of nature : the first book published in this country to be illustrated with original photographs -- The earliest appearance of the photography on the printed page -- From unique image to multiple copies : transferring the daguerreotype onto the printed page in France -- The sitter as hero : the portrait multiplied in nineteenth-century Britain -- The Art-union : bringing art and photography to a wider audience -- The transition of the photographically illustrated book from exclusivity to mass-popularity -- The stereoscopic image : the world seen in depth -- The Empire and beyond : recording the past and the present in the mid-nineteenth century -- Italy and the onset of mass tourism : packaging the past for the present -- The nineteenth-century mind : its myriad professions, pursuits, and passions -- Capturing the spirit to gilding the lily : portraiture and illustration in mid-Victorian prose and poetry -- Photography as truth : the significance of the facsimile as an aid to scholarship and enquiry -- The darkroom opened : early photographic treatises and the response to the new art of photography -- Facing the music : the alliance between photography and the musical stave -- From gentleman amateurs to dedicated professionals : photography comes of age -- Their heads in the clouds : early aerial photography in Paris.