Jennifer Tucker Copyright (c) 2009 All rights reserved. http://works.bepress.com/jennifer_tucker Recent documents in Jennifer Tucker en-us Wed, 02 Sep 2009 09:58:23 PDT 3600 Gender and Genre in Scientific Photography http://works.bepress.com/jennifer_tucker/9 http://works.bepress.com/jennifer_tucker/9 Wed, 15 Jul 2009 07:56:01 PDT Jennifer Tucker Portrait Photography, Visual Culture, and the Reform of British Science http://works.bepress.com/jennifer_tucker/8 http://works.bepress.com/jennifer_tucker/8 Wed, 15 Jul 2009 07:53:32 PDT Jennifer Tucker Nature Exposed: Photography as an Eye Witness in Victorian Science http://works.bepress.com/jennifer_tucker/7 http://works.bepress.com/jennifer_tucker/7 Wed, 15 Jul 2009 07:48:04 PDT Jennifer Tucker Objectivity, Collective Sight, and Scientific Personae http://works.bepress.com/jennifer_tucker/6 http://works.bepress.com/jennifer_tucker/6 Fri, 10 Jul 2009 09:57:23 PDT Jennifer Tucker The Historian, the Picture, and the Archive http://works.bepress.com/jennifer_tucker/5 http://works.bepress.com/jennifer_tucker/5 Fri, 10 Jul 2009 09:55:52 PDT One of the persistent features of historical writing about the sciences in the last twenty years has been the concern of a number of historians who insist on the need for a new awareness of the role of visual images and image making. The author believes that, rather than reducing the analysis of visual culture to a single set of principles, the point of the academic study of scientific images is the recognition of their heterogeneity, the different circumstances of their production, and the variety of cultural and social functions they serve. This essay challenges historians to discover new ways of framing the historical meanings of scientific images within the larger contexts of signifying symbols, images, and mediations that make up culture. The study of nineteenth-century practices of building collections of scientific photographs provides the background for a discussion of the significance of picture archives in the history of science, of the historical mechanisms that frame some pictures as "scientific" and others as "unscientific," and of the need for further research on how scientific images generate meaning. Jennifer Tucker Voyages of Discovery on Oceans of Air: Scientific Observation and the Image of Science in an Age of "Balloonacy" http://works.bepress.com/jennifer_tucker/4 http://works.bepress.com/jennifer_tucker/4 Thu, 09 Jul 2009 10:28:53 PDT Jennifer Tucker