Samuel Butler’s photography: Observation and the dynamic past

Samuel Butler, Victorian Against the Grain: A Critical Overview

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 251-286

  Edwards, Elizabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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1. Elizabeth edwards, ‘Surveying Culture: Photography and the Collection of Culture, British New Guinea, 1898,’ in Hunting the Gatherers: Ethnographic Collectors, Agents and Agency in Melanesia, 1870s-1930s, ed. Michael O’Hanlon and Robert L. Welsch (Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2000), 112-15.
2. Jennifer Green-Lewis, Framing the Victorians: Photography and the Culture of Realism(Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1996), 26.
3. John Wade, A Short History of the Camera(Watford: Fountain Press, 1979), 50-7.
4. Anon., ‘Notes,’ British Journal of Photography, 25 May 1888, 333-4.
5. George W. Stocking, Jr, Victorian Anthropology (New York: Free Press, 1987)
6. After Tylor: British Social Anthropology, 1888-1951(Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1995).
7. Elizabeth edwards, ‘Performing Science,’ in Cambridge and the Torres Strait: Centenary Essays on the 1898 Anthropological Expedition, ed. Anita Herle and Sandra Rouse (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), 106-35.
8. C.F. Delaney, Science, Knowledge, and Mind: A Study in the Philosophy of C.S. Peirce(Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1993), 128-9, 136-8.
9. Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison, ‘Images of Objectivity,’ Representations40 (1992): 81-128.
10. Alfred C. Haddon, ‘Photography,’ in Notes and Queries on Anthropology(London: Anthropological Institute, 1899), 235-40.
11. Samuel Butler, Alps and Sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino (1881 London: A.C. Fifield, 1913), 11 (hereafter cited in text as AS).
12. David Hoyt, ‘The Reanimation of the Primitive: Fin de Siècle Ethnographic Discourse in Western Europe,’ History of Science39, no. 3 (2001): 331-52.
13. Peter J. Bowler, The Eclipse of Darwinism: Anti-Darwinian Evolution Theories in the Decades around 1900(Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983), 68-9.
14. Nancy Armstrong, Fiction in the Age of Photography: The Legacy of British Realism(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999), 7.
15. Jonathan Friday, ‘Photography and the Representation of Vision,’ Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism59, no. 4 (2001): 353.
16. Roy Flukinger, Larry Schaaf, and Standish Meacham, Paul Martin: Victorian Photographer(London: Gordon Fraser, 1978).
17. Cecil Beaton, introduction to Bill Jay, Victorian Candid Camera: Paul Martin, 1864-1944(Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1973), 10.
18. Margaret F. Harker, Henry Peach Robinson, Master of Photographic Art, 1830-1901(Oxford: Blackwell, 1988), 78-9.
19. Ellen Handy, ‘Pictorial Beauties, Natural Truths, Photographic Practices,’ in E. Handy, ed., Pictorial Effect, Naturalistic Vision: The Photographs and Theories of Henry Peach Robinson and Peter Henry Emerson(Norfolk, VA: Chrysler Museum, 1994), 1-23.
20. Flukinger, Schaaf, and Meacham, Paul Martin, 59.
21. Everard im Thurn, ‘The Anthropological Uses of the Camera,’ Journal of the Anthropological Institute22 (1893): 184-203
22. M.V. Portman, ‘Photography for Anthropologists,’ Journal of the Anthropological Institute25 (1896): 75-85.
23. Elinor Shaffer, in Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh: Photographs, Paintings, Watercolours and Drawings by Samuel Butler (1835-1902)(Bolton: Bolton Museum & Art Gallery, 1989), 9.
24. Geraldine A. Johnson, ed., Sculpture and Photography: Envisioning the Third Dimension (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), 8-9.
25. Greg Dening, Performances(Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1996), 117-18.
26. Shaffer, Erewhons of the Eye, 207.
27. Grimshaw, The Ethnographer’s Eye, 23-4.
28. Samuel Butler, ‘A Medieval Girl School,’ in Selected Essays, ed. Henry Festing Jones (London: Jonathan Cape, 1927), 178-9.
29. Deborah Poole, Vision, Race, and Modernity: A Visual Economy of the Andean Image World(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997), 9-13.
30. Peter J. Bowler, The Non-Darwinian Revolution: Reinterpreting an Historical Myth(Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988), 97-8.
31. Shaffer, Erewhons of the Eye, 122.
32. Samuel Butler, Erewhon, or Over the Range (1872 Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1970), 198-226.
33. Samuel Butler, Life and Habit (1878 London: A.C. Fifield, 1910), 131 (hereafter cited in text as LH).
34. Samuel Butler, Essays on Life, Art, and Science, ed. R.A. Streatfeild (1908 Port Washington, NY: Kennikat Press, 1970), 332.
35. The Note-Books of Samuel Butler, ed. Henry Festing Jones (1912 London: Jonathan Cape, 1926), 62.
36. Roland Barthes, ‘The Rhetoric of the Image,’ in Image, Music, Text, ed. and trans. Stephen Heath (London: Flamingo, 1984), 4.
37. Thomas Richards, The Imperial Archive: Knowledge and the Fantasy of Empire(London: Verso, 1993), 73-109.
38. Edward B. Tylor, Primitive Culture(London: John Murray, 1871).
39. Michael MacDonagh, introduction to Sir Benjamin Stone’s Pictures: Records of National Life and History(London: Cassell, 1906), iii.
40. Elizabeth edwards, ‘Photography, Englishness and “Collective Memory”: The National Photographic Record Association, 1897-1910,’ in Locating Memory, ed. Annette Kuhn and Kirsten McAllister (Oxford: Berghan Books, 2006), 53-79.
41. Christine Boyer, ‘La Mission Héliographique: Architectural Photography, Collective Memory and Patrimony in France, 1851,’ in Picturing Place: Photography and the Geographical Imagination, ed. Joan M. Schwartz and James R. Ryan (London: I.B. Tauris, 2003), 21-54.
42. Peter James, ‘Evolution of the Photographic Record and Survey Movement, c.1890-1910,’ History of Photography12, no. 3 (1988): 205-18
43. Elizabeth edwards and Peter James, A Record of England: Sir Benjamin Stone and the National Photographic Record Association, 1897-1910(Stockport and London: Dewi Lewis Publishing and Victoria and Albert Publications, 2006).
44. Cosmo Burton, ‘The Whole Duty of the Photographer,’ British Journal of Photography, part 2, 18 October 1889, 682.
45. Butler, Essays on Life, Art, and Science, 26-7.
46. The Note-Books of Samuel Butler, ed. Jones, 262.
47. Shaffer, Erewhons of the Eye, 227-8.
48. Alfred C. Haddon, Head Hunters: Black, White, and Brown(London: Methuen, 1901), 220.
49. Jonathan Crary, Techniques of the Observer(Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1990).
50. Celia Lury, Prosthetic Culture: Photography, Memory and Identity(London: Routledge, 1998), 218.
51. Celia Lury, Prosthetic Culture: Photography, Memory and Identity(London: Routledge, 1998), 219.
52. Rosalind E. Krauss, The Optical Unconscious(Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1993), 178-80.
53. Hoyt, ‘The Reanimation of the Primitive,’ 339.
54. Scott McQuire, Visions of Modernity: Representation, Memory, Time and Space in the Age of the Camera(London: Sage, 1998), 119-22.
55. Anon., ‘Notes,’ British Journal of Photography, 25 May 1888, 325.