Developing Orientalism: Negative/Positive Ecologies ‘in the Field’ of the British Empire, c.1850–1888

Figures & data

Figure 1. Frederic Villiers, ‘Mr Burke Posing the Ameer’ and ‘“Fixing” the Negative’, The Graphic, 12 July 1879, cover. © Mary Evans Picture Library.

Figure 2. Gaston Tissandier, ‘Photography and Exploration’, History and Handbook of Photography, 1876, wood engraving. © National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh.

Figure 3. Linnaeus Tripe, Amerapoora, Mohdee Kyoung, 1855, waxed-paper negative. © Victoria and Albert Museum, London [rps.2721–2017].

Figure 4. John Thomson, A Manchu Bride, 1871, digital positive of original glassplate negative, 12.1 × 16.5 cm. Wellcome Collection, London.