TY - BOOK
T1 - Photography and Exploration
AU - Ryan, James R.
N1 - Accession Number: up.1175960; Other Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 11, 2013).; Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.; Publication Type: Book, eBook; Physical Description: 1 online resource (194 pages) : illustrations.; Language: English; OCLC: 859188020
PY - 2013/6/1
Y1 - 2013/6/1
N2 - When Ferdinand Magellan set out to circumnavigate the globe in 1519, he wasn’t able to take a digital camera or a smartphone with him. Yet, as the eagerly awaited images from the Mars Rover prove, modern exploration is inconceivable without photography. Since its invention in 1839, photography was integral to exploration and used by explorers, sponsors and publishers alike, and in the early twentieth century, advances in technology – and photography’s newfound cultural currency as a truthful witness to the world – made the camera an indispensable tool. In Photography and Exploration, James R. Ryan uses a variety of examples from polar journeys to space missions to show how exploration photographs have been created, circulated and consumed as objects of both scientific research and art.
AB - When Ferdinand Magellan set out to circumnavigate the globe in 1519, he wasn’t able to take a digital camera or a smartphone with him. Yet, as the eagerly awaited images from the Mars Rover prove, modern exploration is inconceivable without photography. Since its invention in 1839, photography was integral to exploration and used by explorers, sponsors and publishers alike, and in the early twentieth century, advances in technology – and photography’s newfound cultural currency as a truthful witness to the world – made the camera an indispensable tool. In Photography and Exploration, James R. Ryan uses a variety of examples from polar journeys to space missions to show how exploration photographs have been created, circulated and consumed as objects of both scientific research and art.
KW - documentary photography
KW - photographs as information resources
KW - photography
KW - scientific applications
UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=cat01619a&AN=up.1175960&site=eds-live
UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/portsmouth/Doc?id=10768613
M3 - Monograph
SN - 9781780231006
T3 - Exposures
BT - Photography and Exploration
PB - Reaktion Books
CY - London
ER -