Anne Mccauley
Biographic Data
| ID | 1065025 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anne Mccauley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anne |
| FAMILY NAME | Mccauley |
| SIGNATURE | MCCAULEY A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Princeton University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Anne McCauley. Review of "The New Woman Behind the Camera" by Andrea Nelson
Beauty or Beast? Manet's Olympia in the Age of Comparative Anatomy
Among the most‐cited jibes directed at Manet’s Olympia in 1865 was a comment by the little𠄉known critic, Amédée Cantaloube, in a short‐lived periodical, Le Grand Journal , that dubbed the reclining nude ‘a kind of gorilla’. Through a close reading of the layered associations with this primate, only named in 1847, this essay locates the painting’s subject within contemporary excitement over the possible capture of a living specimen by adventurer …
Merely Mechanical’
The invention of the medium of photography and its commercialization as a cheap multiple during the 1850s and 1860s led to challenges to extant copyright laws in France and Great Britain. This paper traces the ways that debates over photographic copyright confronted current understandings of originality and mechanization and repeated arguments that had already been raised by laws governing prints and casts. The British Fine Arts Copyright Act of …
Talbot's Rouen window
On 16 May 1843, William Henry Fox Talbot, stopping in Rouen en route to Paris to try to market his calotype process, set up his camera in front of the muslin-curtained window of his room in the Hôtel de l'Angleterre (figure 1).1 Huddled deep in the darkened bedroom, he focused not on the masts of sailing vessels docked outside on the quai du Havre or the new suspension bridge that he was to record in other images, but on the plane of the window i…
Writing photography's history before Newhall
My aim in this essay is to suggest some of the modes of inquiry and the subjects that I think need to be broached before we can more clearly conceptualize what photography's histories have been and may be. I say 'histories' advisedly, because what I do not want to suggest is that we need to exchange the canonical 'master narratives' perpetuated by textbook publishers and sesquicentennial museum shows for new, more inclusive registers of great pic…
History and practice of platinum printing
Catherine Wagner and the Photography of Urban Change
Review| January 01 1989 Catherine Wagner and the Photography of Urban Change Changing Places: Photographs by Catherine Wagner at Libbie Rice Farish Gallery, Rice University, Houston, TX, Oct. 17- Nov. 25, 1988 Anne McCauley Anne McCauley Anne McCauley is associate professor of art history at the University of Massachusetts-Boston and is completing a book on commercial photography in Paris from 1848-1871. Search for other works by this author on: …
Merely Mechanical’
The invention of the medium of photography and its commercialization as a cheap multiple during the 1850s and 1860s led to challenges to extant copyright laws in France and Great Britain. This paper traces the ways that debates over photographic copyright confronted current understandings of originality and mechanization and repeated arguments that had already been raised by laws governing prints and casts. The British Fine Arts Copyright Act of …
Catherine Wagner and the Photography of Urban Change
Review| January 01 1989 Catherine Wagner and the Photography of Urban Change Changing Places: Photographs by Catherine Wagner at Libbie Rice Farish Gallery, Rice University, Houston, TX, Oct. 17- Nov. 25, 1988 Anne McCauley Anne McCauley Anne McCauley is associate professor of art history at the University of Massachusetts-Boston and is completing a book on commercial photography in Paris from 1848-1871. Search for other works by this author on: …
History and practice of platinum printing
Writing photography's history before Newhall
My aim in this essay is to suggest some of the modes of inquiry and the subjects that I think need to be broached before we can more clearly conceptualize what photography's histories have been and may be. I say 'histories' advisedly, because what I do not want to suggest is that we need to exchange the canonical 'master narratives' perpetuated by textbook publishers and sesquicentennial museum shows for new, more inclusive registers of great pic…
Talbot's Rouen window
On 16 May 1843, William Henry Fox Talbot, stopping in Rouen en route to Paris to try to market his calotype process, set up his camera in front of the muslin-curtained window of his room in the Hôtel de l'Angleterre (figure 1).1 Huddled deep in the darkened bedroom, he focused not on the masts of sailing vessels docked outside on the quai du Havre or the new suspension bridge that he was to record in other images, but on the plane of the window i…
Merely Mechanical’
The invention of the medium of photography and its commercialization as a cheap multiple during the 1850s and 1860s led to challenges to extant copyright laws in France and Great Britain. This paper traces the ways that debates over photographic copyright confronted current understandings of originality and mechanization and repeated arguments that had already been raised by laws governing prints and casts. The British Fine Arts Copyright Act of …
Beauty or Beast? Manet's Olympia in the Age of Comparative Anatomy
Among the most‐cited jibes directed at Manet’s Olympia in 1865 was a comment by the little𠄉known critic, Amédée Cantaloube, in a short‐lived periodical, Le Grand Journal , that dubbed the reclining nude ‘a kind of gorilla’. Through a close reading of the layered associations with this primate, only named in 1847, this essay locates the painting’s subject within contemporary excitement over the possible capture of a living specimen by adventurer …
Anne McCauley. Review of "The New Woman Behind the Camera" by Andrea Nelson
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