By placing nineteenth-century photography into rich dialogue not only with fine art but with other disciplines, this welcome volume provides thought-provoking readings of both familiar and overlooked images with an attentiveness to the material properties of photographic objects.

Elizabeth Siegel, Curator of Photography and Media, The Art Institute of Chicago, USA

This innovative volume presents photographic history in all its wonderful, controversial diversity. The essays open onto myriad forms of art-making, illuminating crucial debates in nineteenth-century aesthetics. The book’s introduction offers an indispensable historiography of the subject. Photography and the Arts makes a valuable contribution to the art history of photography.

Rachel Teukolsky, Associate Professor of English, Vanderbilt University, USA

<p>The reader comes away from the texts with a number of useful insights. Images and—more specifically—objects presented through the category of art did not just make beauty and philosophy possible in a medium closely associated with the mechanical and the functional. Beauty, in other words, often served—intentionally or not—as a fig leaf in photographs with other agendas seemingly well outside the realm of art. Establishing this<br />fact, along with making fundamental additions to our historical knowledge of photography,<br />represents the volume’s primary contribution.</p>

Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide