Tailoring Authenticity: A Media Post-Mortem of the Daguerreotype through the NFT.
This article attempts to test the ways nineteenth-century spectatorship is viewed and interpreted in contemporary artistic practices by exploring the impact of the early decades of photography in terms of ongoing developments in contemporary visual technology. The central question is: how might a co...
| Published in: | 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century no. 38; pp. 1 - 20 |
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2025
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