Photography's Materialities

Geoff Bender is assistant professor in the English department at the State University of New York, College at Cortland. Rasmus R. Simonsen is senior lecturer in the Communication Design & Media program at the Copenhagen School of Design and Technology.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction:Photography’s MaterialitiesGeoff Bender and Rasmus R. SimonsenSection I: The Materialities of Process and ProductSilver Salts: Realism and Materiality in a French photograph c.1900Maura CoughlinEarly Photogravure & the Material UnconsciousJacob W. LewisSection II: Material RemediationsEvery Contact Leaves a Trace: Edith Wharton and the Forensic ImaginationMary MarchandStructuring Desire in Thomas Eakins’s Painting and PhotographyRasmus R. SimonsenThe Multilingualism of Jacob Riis’s ImagetextChrista Holm VogeliusSection III: Human-Posthuman MaterialitiesComposita, the “Mascot” of the Class of 1886: A (Fictional) Picture of “Real” Victorian-era College Sisterhood and Social-Caste ExpectationsKris Belden-Adams “A Single Multiple Image”: The Visual Rhetoric of An Ethiopian ChiefGeoff BenderSpirit Photography & Rogue ObjectsZachary TavlinObject Lessons: What Cyanotypes Teach Us About Digital MediaDavid LaRoccaAfterwordRasmus R. Simonsen and Geoff BenderGallery with Color PlatesContributorsIndex

This collection will be of interest to scholars and students working on the specific photographic technologies and processes covered in its wide- ranging chapters. It will also be valuable to those looking for more sophisticated avenues into thinking about photographic materiality. [...] Overall, this collection is abreast with current debates around materiality and photography, extending this conversation in thoughtful and meaningful ways.Elisa DeCourcy, Technology and Culture, Volume 63, Number 4, October 2022, pp. 1223-1225, https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/868074