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Introduction
Scope
The Encyclopedia
of Nineteenth-Century Photography will include some 650 main entries,
arranged alphabetically, ranging in length from 1,000 words up to 5,000
words for the longer thematic entries and survey articles; each entry
will include a list of Further Reading and, for entries on individuals,
a separate paragraph of biographical information. There will also be
an appendix of shorter entries on about 650 minor photographers, as
well as some potentially major figures the importance of whose work
is only now emerging. The encyclopedia will be illustrated with photographs
and equipped with an index. It will be complemented by Fitzroy Dearborn’s
Encyclopedia
of Twentieth-Century Photography, edited by Lynne Warren and
published by the company’s Chicago office.
Focus
Entries will be included on individuals (photographers, inventors,
critics, and artists from other fields who wrote about photography);
on equipment, techniques, processes, and formats; on artistic movements,
aesthetic questions, and criticism; on the development of the commerce
of photography; and on the kinds of tasks photography was called on
to perform (such as portraiture, documentary, and ethnographic studies),
as well as survey articles on the development of photography within
individual countries and on the continuity of themes across the decades.
Aims
The purpose of the encyclopedia is to provide a high-quality reference
source which brings together in a single place detailed information
and the latest scholarship on the art and science of photography up
to 1900 – a fast-growing area of study, yet one which has never before
been the focus of a dedicated encyclopedic work in English, and is often
treated superficially in general works on photographic history. It will
become an indispensable tool for academic courses in the fine arts,
social history, and the history of technology, and a springboard for
research on many figures whose work is only now emerging from obscurity.
The List of
Entries
The List of Entries can be viewed broken
down into subject categories for convenience. In the actual book, the
main entries will be presented in a simple A-Z sequence, followed by
a separate A-Z Appendix of Minor and Emerging Figures. Both sections
will be fully cross-referenced and indexed in order to make the contents
as accessible as possible. The entry list has been drawn up by the editor
with advice from the project’s Board
of Advisers.
Sample
Entry
Contributor
Guide
If you are interested in writing for the Encyclopedia, please see
the Contributor Guide for information on how
to contact us, and the List of Entries for
a complete listing of the proposed contents of the Encyclopedia. Please
note that Appendix entries will not be assigned individually.
About the
Editor
From 1989-2001 Pam Roberts was Curator of the UK’s Royal
Photographic Society. Her publications include The Royal Photographic
Society Collection (1994), Under Exposed (1996), and Photogenic
(2000), as well as essays in The Portrait in Photography (edited
by Graham Clarke, 1992) and L'Égypte à la Chambre Noire (edited
by Jean Vercoutter, 1992), and many exhibition catalogues, including
most recently F. Holland Day (Boston, Amsterdam, Munich, 2000–2001).
About the
Publishers
Fitzroy Dearborn is now an imprint of Routledge, a division of Taylor
and Francis. Routledge is a long-standing publisher of academic reference
works renowned for their high quality and scholarship. Further information
about Routledge publications can be found at www.routledge-ny.com.
More
information:
Advisers
News
List of Entries
Contacts
Unassigned entries
Sample entry
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