![]() Not only was it in an English book that the paper photograph was first described and published, but the range of subject matter of nineteenth-century British photographically illustrated books prior to the 1880s was as rich as it was peculiar and sometimes recalcitrant. Armstrong's emphasis is on British books. In Scenes in a Library, Carol Armstrong explores the experimental moment, at the inception of the new medium, when the word came to haunt the photographic image, and the forty or so years-roughly from the 1840s to the 1880s-during which the photographic image alternately resisted and became assimilated to the printed page. The text is internalized within the image, and the meaning of the photograph becomes clear and self-evident, as if by the evidence of the photograph itself. Today we are so accustomed to seeing photographs wedded to text-whether in the family album or daily newspaper-that the verbal framing of the photograph has become invisible. An exploration of the historical moment when the photographic image became wedded to the printed page.
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