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This article investigates the role of the darkroom in the experiences of British amateur photographers who, between the 1880s and 1900s, chose to process their negatives themselves while travelling. It focuses, in particular, on the reasons underpinning the development of a network of facilities for changing and developing plates available to tourists, and on how photographers’ engagement with this infrastructure expanded its function in ways that implicitly challenged dominant approaches to both photography and travel. It does so by examining the darkroom, first, as an alternative tourist bureau that put travelling photographers in contact with local knowledge, and second, as the site of a material culture that empowered photographers. These experiences demonstrate that close to the heart of these practitioners was not simply photographic mobility but, most importantly, photographic autonomy.
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2024 December | 41 | 41 |
2024 November | 61 | 61 |
2024 October | 62 | 62 |
2024 September | 64 | 64 |
2024 August | 41 | 41 |
2024 July | 51 | 51 |
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2023 November | 53 | 53 |
2023 October | 31 | 31 |
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2023 June | 25 | 25 |
2023 May | 48 | 48 |
2023 April | 42 | 42 |
2023 March | 52 | 52 |
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2022 December | 27 | 27 |
2022 November | 64 | 64 |
2022 October | 40 | 40 |
2022 September | 34 | 34 |
2022 August | 48 | 48 |
2022 July | 49 | 49 |
2022 June | 97 | 97 |
2022 May | 52 | 52 |
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