This paper was presented at the Forum for Nineteenth-Century Studies on Monday 30 January 2017 in the Keynes Library, Birkbeck School of Arts, by Steve Edwards (Birkbeck).
Speaker: Steve Edwards is Professor of History and Theory of Photography in the Department of Art History at Birkbeck. His publications include: The Making of English Photography, Allegories (2006) and Martha Rosler, The Bowery in two inadequate descriptive systems (2012). His work has been translated into 11 languages and he is an editor of Oxford Art Journal and the Historical Materialism book series.
Listen to a recording of Steve Edwards’s paper ‘Making a Case: Daguerrotypes’ here: