Willcock, Sean (2018) The aesthetics of the negative: Orientalist portraiture in the digitised Collodion Plates of John Thomson (1837-1921). Photoresearcher (30), pp. 96-110. ISSN 0958-2606.
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Abstract
This article probes the interrelationships between aesthetics and politics within Orientalist photography by considering the global success of the recent exhibition, 'Through the Lens of John Thomson'. It considers argues that the show’s invitation to pay sustained attention to the aesthetic, material, and thematic qualities of the photographic negatives – as opposed to the positives disseminated by Thomson over the course of his career – enables new political readings of his photography to emerge which complicate standard postcolonial readings of Orientalist portraiture.
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| Item Type: | Article |
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| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Historical Studies |
| Depositing User: | Sean Willcock |
| Date Deposited: | 21 May 2019 10:21 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Apr 2025 11:21 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/27512 |
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