Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I The Emergence of Modern Communications
7. 1. Elephans Photographicus. Media Archaeology and the History of Photography 13
8. 2. A Mirror with Wings. Photography and the New Era of Communications 34
9. 3. The Traveling Daguerreotype. Early Photography and the U.S. Postal System 47
10. 4. The Telegraph of the Past. Nadar and the Time of Photography 57
11. 5. With Eyes of Flesh and Glass Eyes. Railroad Image-Objects and Fantasies of Human-Machine Hybridizations in the Mid-Nineteenth-Century United States 72
12. Part II Technologies of Reproduction
13. 6. Peer Production in the Age of Collodion. The Bromide Patent and the Photographic Press, 1854–1868 91
14. 7. Two or Three Things Photography Did to Painting 103
15. 8. Uniqueness Multiplied. The Daguerreotype and the Visual Economy of the Graphic Arts 116
16. 9. Photographs in Text. The Reproduction of Photographs in Nineteenth-Century Scientific Communication 131
17. Part III Popular Cultures
18. 10. In the Time of Balzac. The Daguerreotype and the Discovery/Invention of Society 149
19. 11. Sound Photography 162
20. 12. Photography, Cinema, and Perceptual Realism in the Nineteenth Century 176
21. 13. The Double-Birth Model Tested Against Photography 191
22. Afterword. Media History and History of Photography in Parallel Lines 205
23. Bibliography 213
24. Contributors 235
25. Index 236