5. Lippmann Photography and the Problems of Media Historiography

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of contents 5
3. Gabriel Lippmann’s Colour Photography: A Critical Introduction 7
4. Part I The Science of Colour Photography and the Colour Photography of Science
5. 1. How Lippmann Froze Light and Passed It around for Others to Taste 31
6. 2. Lippmann’s Interferential Colour Photography: A Juncture between the Histories of Spectroscopy and Photography 63
7. 3. Colour Under the Microscope: Santiago Ramón y Cajal Does ‘Histology’ on Lippmann Heliochromes 91
8. 4. Lost in Description: The Misunderstanding of Frederic Ives (1856–1937) and the Experiments of His Son Herbert (1882–1953) on Lippmann’s Interference Photography 113
9. Part II Media History, Aesthetics, and Culture
10. 5. Lippmann Photography and the Problems of Media Historiography 133
11. 6. Richard Neuhauss’s Stuffed Parrot: Interferential Colour Photography, Taxidermy, and Projection 159
12. 7. Brilliant! Enthusiasm for the Aesthetic Qualities of Lippmann’s Interferential Photography 185
13. 8. From Maxwell to Mercury: The Cultural History of Gabriel Lippmann’s Colour Photography 199
14. Part III Contemporary Reception and Future Trajectories
15. 9. Materiality, Identification, and Conservation of Lippmann Plates 213
16. 10. Exhibiting Gabriel Lippmann: A Collaborative Challenge 251
17. 11. Modern Lippmann Photog 273
18. 12. “It’s not just a picture, it’s a magical object”: Interview with Contemporary Lippmann Photographer Filipe Alves 289
19. Afterword: Building Bridges over Standing Waves 297
20. Index 305