Research Catalog

Title

The somnambulists : photographic portraits from before photography / photographs by Joanna Kane ; essays by Duncan Forbes, Roberta McGrath.

Author

Kane, Joanna.

Publication

Stockport, England : Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2008.

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Additional Authors

• Forbes, Duncan.
• McGrath, Roberta
• Phrenological Society (Edinburgh, Scotland)
• National Galleries of Scotland

Description

[109] p. : chiefly ill.; 31 cm.

Summary

The drive to capture true likeness in the early 19th century was partly generated by the pseudo-science of phrenology. As a by-product of this, cast collections such as those of the Edinburgh Phrenological Society have preserved these haunting likenesses. In this book, Joanna Kane's photographs capture these unique masks.

Subject

• Masks (Sculpture) > Great Britain > Pictorial works
• Portrait sculpture > Great Britain > Pictorial works
• Photography of sculpture
• Phrenology > Pictorial works
• Portrait photography

Genre/Form

Pictorial works

Note

• "The somnambulist are contemporary portraits of life and death masks from the cast collection of the Edinburgh Phrenological Society". -- back cover.
• "Published in association with National Galleries of Scotland". -- prelim.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Hieroglyphic heads, by Duncan Forbes, Roberta McGrath.

ISBN

• 9781904587569 (hbk.)
• 1904587569 (hbk.)

OCLC

• 181069549
• SCSB-10110000

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library