Periodic Reporting for period 1 - PHOTOMECHANICS (Photomechanical printing in Europe in the mid-19th century: History, theory, visual culture, science and the international network in the 1840s-1860s)

There are three long-standing tendencies most apparent in existing scholarship: Firstly, contrary to the large interest in developing fine photomechanical printing processes in the 1840s–60s, the historiography concentrated only on a small number of figures. Secondly, most...