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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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"Drawn towards the lens": Representations and Receptions of Photography in Britain, 1839 to 1853

Munro, Julia Francesca January 2008 (has links)
This dissertation studies the earliest years of photography’s invention. Attention to the earliest conceptions of photography reveals a more complex and contested understanding of the nature and significance of photographic representation than has previously been attributed to the Victorians of the early nineteenth century, providing not only a more comprehensive picture of the history of the new technology, but also new insights into the interactions of Victorian photography and visual culture. The earliest representations and receptions of photography are gathered from inventors’ reports, the first photographic texts produced for a specialist and general audience, and periodical articles that reveal the popular reception of photography by a non-specialist audience. The evolving representations and reception of photography are traced throughout the 1840s, as the medium grew increasingly popular, with a particular focus on photographic portraiture. Arguing that the earliest figurations of a new medium directly inform or “premediate” how the medium is negotiated as it becomes established in the culture – that is, even though the technology and use of photography changed quite rapidly, the earliest perceptions of the medium powerfully influenced how it was used, perceived, and resisted – I examine the central anxieties raised by photography that persisted throughout the 1840s and early 1850s. Using Charles Dickens’s Bleak House as a case study, I then turn to literature of the realist genre to assess how photography is imagined and contested in novelistic form. This not only provides a model with which to examine the incorporation of photographic allusions and themes into the realist novel, but also contributes new insights into the ways in which the issues of photography and other aspects of visuality intersected with the literary realist enterprise.
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"Drawn towards the lens": Representations and Receptions of Photography in Britain, 1839 to 1853

Munro, Julia Francesca January 2008 (has links)
This dissertation studies the earliest years of photography’s invention. Attention to the earliest conceptions of photography reveals a more complex and contested understanding of the nature and significance of photographic representation than has previously been attributed to the Victorians of the early nineteenth century, providing not only a more comprehensive picture of the history of the new technology, but also new insights into the interactions of Victorian photography and visual culture. The earliest representations and receptions of photography are gathered from inventors’ reports, the first photographic texts produced for a specialist and general audience, and periodical articles that reveal the popular reception of photography by a non-specialist audience. The evolving representations and reception of photography are traced throughout the 1840s, as the medium grew increasingly popular, with a particular focus on photographic portraiture. Arguing that the earliest figurations of a new medium directly inform or “premediate” how the medium is negotiated as it becomes established in the culture – that is, even though the technology and use of photography changed quite rapidly, the earliest perceptions of the medium powerfully influenced how it was used, perceived, and resisted – I examine the central anxieties raised by photography that persisted throughout the 1840s and early 1850s. Using Charles Dickens’s Bleak House as a case study, I then turn to literature of the realist genre to assess how photography is imagined and contested in novelistic form. This not only provides a model with which to examine the incorporation of photographic allusions and themes into the realist novel, but also contributes new insights into the ways in which the issues of photography and other aspects of visuality intersected with the literary realist enterprise.
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La notion de détail et ses enjeux (1830-1890)

Wicky, Erika 12 1900 (has links)
Pour respecter les droits d'auteur, la version électronique de cette thèse a été dépouillée de ces documents visuels. La version intégrale de la thèse a été déposée au Service de la gestion des documents et des archives de l'Université de Montréal. / Au cours du XIXe siècle, la notion de détail s’est imposée comme un outil théorique majeur pour l’appréhension des représentations visuelles. Menée à travers l’analyse de textes variés rendant compte de la réception des images dans le contexte de cas précis (exposition de peinture, inauguration d’un panorama, publication d’un ouvrage illustré, etc.), l’étude historique de la notion de détail révèle les différents préjugés et réseaux de signification qui lui étaient alors attachés. Le détail étant le produit d’un cadrage opéré par la perception visuelle, l’examen de cette notion nous renseigne non seulement sur le rapport que l’époque entretenait avec le visible, mais aussi sur la nature des liens qu’elle tissait entre la partie et le tout. Ainsi, il apparaît que le détail était propre à satisfaire les besoins d’une période associant voir et savoir et cherchant dans le contrôle du visible les moyens de maîtriser un réel en constante mutation. À ce titre, c’est sur l’argument du détail que reposait l’attribution d’une valeur scientifique, historique ou documentaire aux représentations. Toutefois, le détail devait confirmer le statut de l’ensemble dont il était tiré, car, s’il était discordant, il devenait un indice trahissant un mensonge. Pour cette raison et aussi parce le rendu détaillé dans les représentations témoignait d’une observation rigoureuse du réel et d’un travail patient de restitution, le détail était souvent investi de connotations morales reflétant les valeurs bourgeoises en train de s’imposer. Cependant, alors que le détail était censé servir une meilleure connaissance de l’ensemble, sa prolifération était redoutée, car elle faisait paradoxalement courir à la perception du tout le risque de la dislocation. De plus, dans la mesure où il relève toujours du particulier et d’une observation jugée objective, le détail était souvent perçu comme contrevenant à la valeur artistique des représentations. Ainsi, cette question s’est cristallisée dans les débats portant sur le caractère artistique de l’image photographique qui se distinguait par un rendu inédit et systématique des détails. Enfin, l’analyse de cet argument polymorphe que constitue la notion de détail au XIXe siècle fait apparaître les limites de l’engouement dont elle a fait l’objet. Étant toujours envisagé dans sa dimension figurative, comme instance iconique minimale, le détail tel qu’il était conçu à l’époque ne permettait pas de saisir le substrat matériel qui commençait à émerger dans la peinture moderne. Ainsi, jusque dans ses limites, la notion de détail révèle des enjeux majeurs de la modernité. / Over the course of the nineteenth century, the notion of detail became an established theoretical tool in the understanding of visual representations. Conducted through multiple text analyses taking into account the reception of images in specific contexts (a painting exhibition, the opening of a panorama show, the publication of an illustrated literary work), this historical study reveals the prejudices and networks of meaning attached to the notion of detail. Because detail is the product of visual perception, a study of this notion reveals not only the relationship with the visible that existed at the time, but also the nature of links between parts and the whole. Detail was essential in meeting the needs of a time that associated “seeing” with “knowing” and that attempted to find a means of controlling the ever-changing reality through the visible. As such, the attribution of scientific, historical, or documentary value relied on the argument provided by detail. Nonetheless, detail was supposed to confirm the status of the whole from which it was derived, since when these did not match, the detail became a sign of a lie. For this reason, and also because a detailed depiction signified a rigorous observation of the real conveyed through a careful reproduction, details were often imbued with moral connotations that reflected the bourgeois values of the time. However, while details were meant to help know the whole better, their proliferation was also feared, because it increased the risk of interfering with the perception of the whole. In addition, insofar as it is always derived from the specific and from an observation deemed objective, the detail is often perceived as being in conflict with the artistic value of the representation. This issue became crystallized in the debates on the artistic qualities of photography, an art form characterized by a hitherto unparalleled level of detail. In the end, the analysis of this polymorphic argument encapsulating the notion of detail in the nineteenth century reveals the limits of the infatuation of which it was the object. Previously envisioned in its figurative dimension, the detail as it was perceived at the time did not allow the capture of a material substratum, which started to emerge later with the advent of modern painting. Even in its limitations, the notion of detail reveals the principal issues of modernity.
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La notion de détail et ses enjeux (1830-1890)

Wicky, Erika 12 1900 (has links)
Au cours du XIXe siècle, la notion de détail s’est imposée comme un outil théorique majeur pour l’appréhension des représentations visuelles. Menée à travers l’analyse de textes variés rendant compte de la réception des images dans le contexte de cas précis (exposition de peinture, inauguration d’un panorama, publication d’un ouvrage illustré, etc.), l’étude historique de la notion de détail révèle les différents préjugés et réseaux de signification qui lui étaient alors attachés. Le détail étant le produit d’un cadrage opéré par la perception visuelle, l’examen de cette notion nous renseigne non seulement sur le rapport que l’époque entretenait avec le visible, mais aussi sur la nature des liens qu’elle tissait entre la partie et le tout. Ainsi, il apparaît que le détail était propre à satisfaire les besoins d’une période associant voir et savoir et cherchant dans le contrôle du visible les moyens de maîtriser un réel en constante mutation. À ce titre, c’est sur l’argument du détail que reposait l’attribution d’une valeur scientifique, historique ou documentaire aux représentations. Toutefois, le détail devait confirmer le statut de l’ensemble dont il était tiré, car, s’il était discordant, il devenait un indice trahissant un mensonge. Pour cette raison et aussi parce le rendu détaillé dans les représentations témoignait d’une observation rigoureuse du réel et d’un travail patient de restitution, le détail était souvent investi de connotations morales reflétant les valeurs bourgeoises en train de s’imposer. Cependant, alors que le détail était censé servir une meilleure connaissance de l’ensemble, sa prolifération était redoutée, car elle faisait paradoxalement courir à la perception du tout le risque de la dislocation. De plus, dans la mesure où il relève toujours du particulier et d’une observation jugée objective, le détail était souvent perçu comme contrevenant à la valeur artistique des représentations. Ainsi, cette question s’est cristallisée dans les débats portant sur le caractère artistique de l’image photographique qui se distinguait par un rendu inédit et systématique des détails. Enfin, l’analyse de cet argument polymorphe que constitue la notion de détail au XIXe siècle fait apparaître les limites de l’engouement dont elle a fait l’objet. Étant toujours envisagé dans sa dimension figurative, comme instance iconique minimale, le détail tel qu’il était conçu à l’époque ne permettait pas de saisir le substrat matériel qui commençait à émerger dans la peinture moderne. Ainsi, jusque dans ses limites, la notion de détail révèle des enjeux majeurs de la modernité. / Over the course of the nineteenth century, the notion of detail became an established theoretical tool in the understanding of visual representations. Conducted through multiple text analyses taking into account the reception of images in specific contexts (a painting exhibition, the opening of a panorama show, the publication of an illustrated literary work), this historical study reveals the prejudices and networks of meaning attached to the notion of detail. Because detail is the product of visual perception, a study of this notion reveals not only the relationship with the visible that existed at the time, but also the nature of links between parts and the whole. Detail was essential in meeting the needs of a time that associated “seeing” with “knowing” and that attempted to find a means of controlling the ever-changing reality through the visible. As such, the attribution of scientific, historical, or documentary value relied on the argument provided by detail. Nonetheless, detail was supposed to confirm the status of the whole from which it was derived, since when these did not match, the detail became a sign of a lie. For this reason, and also because a detailed depiction signified a rigorous observation of the real conveyed through a careful reproduction, details were often imbued with moral connotations that reflected the bourgeois values of the time. However, while details were meant to help know the whole better, their proliferation was also feared, because it increased the risk of interfering with the perception of the whole. In addition, insofar as it is always derived from the specific and from an observation deemed objective, the detail is often perceived as being in conflict with the artistic value of the representation. This issue became crystallized in the debates on the artistic qualities of photography, an art form characterized by a hitherto unparalleled level of detail. In the end, the analysis of this polymorphic argument encapsulating the notion of detail in the nineteenth century reveals the limits of the infatuation of which it was the object. Previously envisioned in its figurative dimension, the detail as it was perceived at the time did not allow the capture of a material substratum, which started to emerge later with the advent of modern painting. Even in its limitations, the notion of detail reveals the principal issues of modernity. / Pour respecter les droits d'auteur, la version électronique de cette thèse a été dépouillée de ces documents visuels. La version intégrale de la thèse a été déposée au Service de la gestion des documents et des archives de l'Université de Montréal.

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