Photography

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Alive, yet dead: Mourning in the Victorian period, Sandra Franz	This article explores the attitude towards death through two different sources – a photograph of parents posing with their deceased infant as an...	Tennyson, mourning, 19th century, Victorian Culture, Photography, Death	view
‘A Memory and a Prophecy’: Images of W. B. Yeats’s At The Hawk’s Well by Gerard Krasnopolski	This article examines W.B. Yeats’s ban on press photography during the first performance of At The Hawk’s Well in Lady Cunard’s...	W. B. Yeats, Photography	view
Pomp and Privation in Victorian India, Kapil Komireddi	This essay examines British colonial rule in late nineteenth-century India through the lens of two contemporaneous artefacts. Each vivifies a...	Victorian Culture, Indian history, Famine, Social history, 19th century, Photography, Newspapers, Literature	view
‘Miner poet’ or ‘seer and singer’? Joseph Skipsey’s performance of the identities of miner and poet by Joy Brindle	Northumberland poet Joseph Skipsey (1832- 1903) published 11 volumes of poetry between 1858 and 1895. For the majority of this time he was also...	Poetry, Photography	view
The Victorian Web	A constantly evolving archive of over 61,000 documents and images relating to the British Victorian period. The emphasis is on connections between...	19th century, Social history, History of science, Architecture, Painting, Visual arts, Sculpture, Book design & illustration, Photography, Decorative arts, Gender	view
American Masters: Alfred Steiglitz	A useful set of related on-line texts and videos covering the life and work of this crucially important American photographer.	Photography	view
Images of England	A ‘point in time’ photographic library of England’s listed buildings, recorded at the turn of the 21st century. Over 300,000 images of England’s...	Buildings, Built environment, Listed buildings, Photography, History	view
Greek Radio-Television Broadcasting Archive	This website contains part of the digital, audiovisual archive of ERT, the Greek State Television. The archive includes videos since the...	Modern Greek, Greek culture, Greek cinema, Greek language, Film Studies, European cinema, Greek audio & video materials, Culture, Cinema, Music, Photography, Television, Archive, Society	view
The Dictionary of Victorian London	Contains primary sources covering the social history of Victorian London, including extracts from Victorian newspapers, diaries, journalism,...	Social history, Women, Transport, River Thames, Shops & shopping, Technology, Science, Victorian, London, 19th century, Advertising, Architecture, Charities, Childhood, Clothing & fashions, Communications, Crime, Death & dying, Human diseases, French Education, Entertainment, Finance, Food & drink, Health & hygiene, Houses & housing, Legal system, Lighting, Markets, Police, British politics, Photography, Populations, Prisons, Professions & trades, Religion, History	view
America’s First Look Into the Camera: Daguerreotype Portraits and Views 1839 – 1864	A useful and compendious on-line overview of early American photography, provided by the Library of Congress. Provides a strong focus upon the...	Photography	view

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