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Tables of Contents for Scenes in a Library
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of Figures
xi
Acknowledgments
xxi
Introduction
1
22
Looking Forward to the 1870s: The Natural Method of Photographic Illustration
23
84
The Book of Nature, the Book of Man
26
17
``In The Conduct of This Verification'': Succession and Resemblance, or Induction and the Organon of Proof
43
13
From Microbes to the Moon: Experiments, Instruments, and Photographs, I
56
24
From the Moon to Man: Experiments, Instruments, and Photographs, II
80
27
A Scene in a Library: The First Photographically Illustrated Book
107
72
``Introductory Remarks'' and ``Brief Historical Sketch of the Invention of the Art''
112
14
Plates: A Scene in a Library
126
5
Plates, I: Two Views Through the Camera Obscura
131
9
Plates, II: Two Inventories
140
5
Plates, III: Facsimiles
145
8
Plates, IV: Cameraless Photographs
153
7
Plates, V: Photographs Like Paintings
160
7
Plates, VI: Lacock Abbey and Other Places
167
7
Plates, The End: Variable Prints
174
5
Blueprints for (and Against) Scientific Illustration: Anna Atkins's Botanical Albums
179
98
Biotaxic Negatives: A Photographic Botany
184
23
Between the Certificate and the Code: From the Natural Illustration to the Nature Print
207
26
The Remains of a Ruined Alliance: The Rest of the Cyanotypes
233
37
Postscript
270
7
Photographed and Described: Traveling in the Footsteps of Francis Frith
277
84
Egypt and Palestine Photographed and Described
284
48
``In the Footsteps of Paul Flemming''
332
29
Photographing Literature: Julia Margaret Cameron's Excerpts from Tennyson
361
62
The Album's Frontispiece: The Photographer Takes the Poet, ``From Life''
366
3
Cameron's Women: Lynette, Enid, Vivien, and Elaine
369
33
The Pale Nun and the Dark Queen
402
10
The End: A Filmic Postscript
412
11
Afterword
423
10
Notes
433
66
Photograph Sources
499
6
Index
505