Julie K Brown
Biographic Data
| ID | 3785895 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Julie K Brown |
| GIVEN NAMES | Julie K |
| FAMILY NAME | Brown |
| SIGNATURE | BROWN J K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Julie K. Brown is an independent scholar affiliated with the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History, Washington, DC, and the Center for Medical Humanities and Ethics, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio. |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Jennifer Lisa Koslow, Exhibiting Health
Given the current health crisis situation facing the world today, attention to how health information is transmitted to the public is a critical issue. Studies by historians, social scientists and public health professionals that address the mechanisms, implementations and efficacy of methods used for transmitting health information, deserve immediate consideration. Jennifer Lisa Koslow’s new book, Exhibiting Health Public Health Displays in the …
Missing Persons
Identity photographs used for official employee passbooks at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition provide a way to restore visibility to some of the massive workforce of employees and officials who are otherwise missing in conventional representations of this event. As a tool for documentation, a method for the mass production of images and a vehicle for constructing individual identity, identity photography had multiple functions at the Exposit…
Doctored
Reviewed by: Doctored: The Medicine of Photography in Nineteenth-Century America by Tanya Sheehan Julie K. Brown Tanya Sheehan. Doctored: The Medicine of Photography in Nineteenth-Century America. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2011. xiv + 202 pp. Ill. $39.95 (978-0-271-03793-6). Historians of photography in recent years have moved beyond conventional single-focused approaches to their subject as technology, art, or even so…
Connecting Health and Natural History
In 1909, curator Charles-Edward Winslow established a department of public health in New York City’s American Museum of Natural History (AMNH). Winslow introduced public health as a biological science that connected human health—the modern sciences of physiology, hygiene, and urban sanitation—to the natural history of plants and animals. This was the only time an American museum created a curatorial department devoted to public health. The AMNH’s…
Medicine’s Moving Pictures
Reviewed by: Medicine’s Moving Pictures: Medicine, Health, and Bodies in American Film and Television Julie K. Brown (bio) Medicine’s Moving Pictures: Medicine, Health, and Bodies in American Film and Television. Edited by Leslie J. Reagan, Nancy Tomes, and Paula A. Treichler. Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press, 2007. Pp. ix+343. $85. Recent screenings of educational health films from the rich collection of the National Library of Med…
Ucla Collects! Bodies of Knowledge (review)
Reviewed by: UCLA Collects! Bodies of Knowledge Michael Sappol and Julie K. Brown UCLA Collects! Bodies of Knowledge. Fowler Museum of Cultural History, University of California, Los Angeles, 17 April–31 August 2005. UCLA Collects! Bodies of Knowledge sparkles and burns with energy. The objects are stunning, and the exhibition curators show rare restraint in allowing the viewer to respond to each object rather than being subjected to an overstruc…
The Corporate Eye
Reviewed by: The Corporate Eye: Photography and the Rationalization of American Commercial Culture Julie K. Brown (bio) The Corporate Eye: Photography and the Rationalization of American Commercial Culture. By Elspeth H. Brown. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. Pp. viii+334. $49.95. This is a book whose "big picture" is fully in focus: it lays out the broad but very complex and nuanced terrain of the development of scientific manag…
Photography on the Color Line
Reviewed by: Photography on the Color Line: W. E. B. DuBois, Race, and Visual Culture Julie K. Brown (bio) Photography on the Color Line: W. E. B. DuBois, Race, and Visual Culture. By Shawn Michelle Smith. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2004. Pp. xviii+225. $74.95/$21.95. The unique display of research on the "Georgia Negro" assembled by the young Atlanta University professor W. E. B. DuBois for the American Negroes exhibit at the 1900 Pari…
River of Shadows
Reviewed by: River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West Julie K. Brown (bio) River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West. By Rebecca Solnit. New York: Viking, 2003. Pp. 305. $25.95. The figure of Eadweard Muybridge has loomed so large in the writings of historians in visual culture since the 1970s—with the work of Anita Mozley, Robert Hass, Gordon Hendricks, and most recently of Marta Braun—that …
Fair America
The cultural footprints left by world's fairs continue to fascinate a wide range of readers, from historians and cultural-studies scholars to the general public. Fair America is a welcome addition to a growing literature and brings together the expertise of authors already well known for their substantial contributions to the field. Robert Rydell energized a generation of scholars with his seminal works on world's fairs, including All the World's…
Beauty as good business
In writing this prescription for a successful photographic business, William H. Rau (1855–1920) was reflecting the new era of consumerism and business practice that was taking place in the early twentieth century. Rau was espousing a ‘heroism of business’ that had been popularized by the advertising expert Elbert Hubbard whom Rau was fond of quoting.2 While the end of the nineteenth century had seen the breaking up of the artistic, scientific, an…
The Baltimore & Ohio and Pennsylvania railroad displays
Corporate image-making has long been recognized as one of the keys in understanding the rise of big business enterprises in the early twentieth century. 1 The use of photography for these purposes in nineteenth- century America, however, is a topic which has received much less attention than it deserves. Two exceptions are Mary Panzer's treatment of photography and advertising at mid-nineteenth century and David Nye's work on photography at the G…
Contesting Images
Journal Article Contesting Images: Photography and the Worlds Columbian Exposition. By Julie K. Brown. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1994. xvi, 185 pp. Cloth, $60.00, ISBN 0-8165-1382-1. Paper, $27.50, ISBN 0-8165-1410-0.) Get access James Gilbert James Gilbert University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 1, June 1995, …
Contesting Images
The manufacture of photographic papers in colonial Australia 1890–1900
The commercial production of photographic printing papers was undergoing significant international change and development during the last two decades of the nineteenth century. In Australia the shift to commercial photographic papers was made possible by the development of locally manufactured goods, produced mainly in Melbourne, Victoria and Sydney, New South Wales, and subsequently distributed throughout the other colonies
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The manufacture of photographic papers in colonial Australia 1890–1900
The commercial production of photographic printing papers was undergoing significant international change and development during the last two decades of the nineteenth century. In Australia the shift to commercial photographic papers was made possible by the development of locally manufactured goods, produced mainly in Melbourne, Victoria and Sydney, New South Wales, and subsequently distributed throughout the other colonies
Contesting Images
Journal Article Contesting Images: Photography and the Worlds Columbian Exposition. By Julie K. Brown. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1994. xvi, 185 pp. Cloth, $60.00, ISBN 0-8165-1382-1. Paper, $27.50, ISBN 0-8165-1410-0.) Get access James Gilbert James Gilbert University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 1, June 1995, …
Contesting Images
The Baltimore & Ohio and Pennsylvania railroad displays
Corporate image-making has long been recognized as one of the keys in understanding the rise of big business enterprises in the early twentieth century. 1 The use of photography for these purposes in nineteenth- century America, however, is a topic which has received much less attention than it deserves. Two exceptions are Mary Panzer's treatment of photography and advertising at mid-nineteenth century and David Nye's work on photography at the G…
Beauty as good business
In writing this prescription for a successful photographic business, William H. Rau (1855–1920) was reflecting the new era of consumerism and business practice that was taking place in the early twentieth century. Rau was espousing a ‘heroism of business’ that had been popularized by the advertising expert Elbert Hubbard whom Rau was fond of quoting.2 While the end of the nineteenth century had seen the breaking up of the artistic, scientific, an…
Fair America
The cultural footprints left by world's fairs continue to fascinate a wide range of readers, from historians and cultural-studies scholars to the general public. Fair America is a welcome addition to a growing literature and brings together the expertise of authors already well known for their substantial contributions to the field. Robert Rydell energized a generation of scholars with his seminal works on world's fairs, including All the World's…
Photography on the Color Line
Reviewed by: Photography on the Color Line: W. E. B. DuBois, Race, and Visual Culture Julie K. Brown (bio) Photography on the Color Line: W. E. B. DuBois, Race, and Visual Culture. By Shawn Michelle Smith. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2004. Pp. xviii+225. $74.95/$21.95. The unique display of research on the "Georgia Negro" assembled by the young Atlanta University professor W. E. B. DuBois for the American Negroes exhibit at the 1900 Pari…
River of Shadows
Reviewed by: River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West Julie K. Brown (bio) River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West. By Rebecca Solnit. New York: Viking, 2003. Pp. 305. $25.95. The figure of Eadweard Muybridge has loomed so large in the writings of historians in visual culture since the 1970s—with the work of Anita Mozley, Robert Hass, Gordon Hendricks, and most recently of Marta Braun—that …
Ucla Collects! Bodies of Knowledge (review)
Reviewed by: UCLA Collects! Bodies of Knowledge Michael Sappol and Julie K. Brown UCLA Collects! Bodies of Knowledge. Fowler Museum of Cultural History, University of California, Los Angeles, 17 April–31 August 2005. UCLA Collects! Bodies of Knowledge sparkles and burns with energy. The objects are stunning, and the exhibition curators show rare restraint in allowing the viewer to respond to each object rather than being subjected to an overstruc…
The Corporate Eye
Reviewed by: The Corporate Eye: Photography and the Rationalization of American Commercial Culture Julie K. Brown (bio) The Corporate Eye: Photography and the Rationalization of American Commercial Culture. By Elspeth H. Brown. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. Pp. viii+334. $49.95. This is a book whose "big picture" is fully in focus: it lays out the broad but very complex and nuanced terrain of the development of scientific manag…
Medicine’s Moving Pictures
Reviewed by: Medicine’s Moving Pictures: Medicine, Health, and Bodies in American Film and Television Julie K. Brown (bio) Medicine’s Moving Pictures: Medicine, Health, and Bodies in American Film and Television. Edited by Leslie J. Reagan, Nancy Tomes, and Paula A. Treichler. Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press, 2007. Pp. ix+343. $85. Recent screenings of educational health films from the rich collection of the National Library of Med…
Connecting Health and Natural History
In 1909, curator Charles-Edward Winslow established a department of public health in New York City’s American Museum of Natural History (AMNH). Winslow introduced public health as a biological science that connected human health—the modern sciences of physiology, hygiene, and urban sanitation—to the natural history of plants and animals. This was the only time an American museum created a curatorial department devoted to public health. The AMNH’s…
Doctored
Reviewed by: Doctored: The Medicine of Photography in Nineteenth-Century America by Tanya Sheehan Julie K. Brown Tanya Sheehan. Doctored: The Medicine of Photography in Nineteenth-Century America. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2011. xiv + 202 pp. Ill. $39.95 (978-0-271-03793-6). Historians of photography in recent years have moved beyond conventional single-focused approaches to their subject as technology, art, or even so…
Missing Persons
Identity photographs used for official employee passbooks at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition provide a way to restore visibility to some of the massive workforce of employees and officials who are otherwise missing in conventional representations of this event. As a tool for documentation, a method for the mass production of images and a vehicle for constructing individual identity, identity photography had multiple functions at the Exposit…
Jennifer Lisa Koslow, Exhibiting Health
Given the current health crisis situation facing the world today, attention to how health information is transmitted to the public is a critical issue. Studies by historians, social scientists and public health professionals that address the mechanisms, implementations and efficacy of methods used for transmitting health information, deserve immediate consideration. Jennifer Lisa Koslow’s new book, Exhibiting Health Public Health Displays in the …
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