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Portrait Photography, Visual Culture, And The Reform Of British Science, Jennifer Tucker Dec 2009

Portrait Photography, Visual Culture, And The Reform Of British Science, Jennifer Tucker

Jennifer Tucker

No abstract provided.


Objectivity, Collective Sight, And Scientific Personae, Jennifer Tucker Jul 2009

Objectivity, Collective Sight, And Scientific Personae, Jennifer Tucker

Jennifer Tucker

No abstract provided.


The Historian, The Picture, And The Archive, Jennifer Tucker Jul 2009

The Historian, The Picture, And The Archive, Jennifer Tucker

Jennifer Tucker

One of the persistent features of historical writing about the sciences in the last twenty years has been the concern of a number of historians who insist on the need for a new awareness of the role of visual images and image making. The author believes that, rather than reducing the analysis of visual culture to a single set of principles, the point of the academic study of scientific images is the recognition of their heterogeneity, the different circumstances of their production, and the variety of cultural and social functions they serve. This essay challenges historians to discover new ways …


Voyages Of Discovery On Oceans Of Air: Scientific Observation And The Image Of Science In An Age Of "Balloonacy", Jennifer Tucker Jul 2009

Voyages Of Discovery On Oceans Of Air: Scientific Observation And The Image Of Science In An Age Of "Balloonacy", Jennifer Tucker

Jennifer Tucker

No abstract provided.


Objectivity, Collective Sight, And Scientific Personae, Jennifer Tucker Dec 2007

Objectivity, Collective Sight, And Scientific Personae, Jennifer Tucker

Jennifer Tucker

No abstract provided.


The Historian, The Picture, And The Archive, Jennifer Tucker Feb 2006

The Historian, The Picture, And The Archive, Jennifer Tucker

Jennifer Tucker

One of the persistent features of historical writing about the sciences in the last twenty years has been the concern of a number of historians who insist on the need for a new awareness of the role of visual images and image making. The author believes that, rather than reducing the analysis of visual culture to a single set of principles, the point of the academic study of scientific images is the recognition of their heterogeneity, the different circumstances of their production, and the variety of cultural and social functions they serve. This essay challenges historians to discover new ways …


Gender And Genre In Scientific Photography, Jennifer Tucker Dec 2005

Gender And Genre In Scientific Photography, Jennifer Tucker

Jennifer Tucker

No abstract provided.


Nature Exposed: Photography As An Eye Witness In Victorian Science, Jennifer Tucker Dec 2004

Nature Exposed: Photography As An Eye Witness In Victorian Science, Jennifer Tucker

Jennifer Tucker

No abstract provided.


Voyages Of Discovery On Oceans Of Air: Scientific Observation And The Image Of Science In An Age Of "Balloonacy", Jennifer Tucker Dec 1995

Voyages Of Discovery On Oceans Of Air: Scientific Observation And The Image Of Science In An Age Of "Balloonacy", Jennifer Tucker

Jennifer Tucker

No abstract provided.