Dog-type : amours de chiens, chiennes d’images et types ordinaires dans le daguerréotype américain
This article seeks to elucidate the phrase “dog-type” as applied colloquially to the daguerreotype in several American sources of the mid-19th century. After a glimpse at the photographic representation of animals in the medium’s first decades, I sketch out the role of the dog figure in American dag...
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| description | This article seeks to elucidate the phrase “dog-type” as applied colloquially to the daguerreotype in several American sources of the mid-19th century. After a glimpse at the photographic representation of animals in the medium’s first decades, I sketch out the role of the dog figure in American daguerreotype portraiture. This is followed by a close reading of a story published in 1849 by T.S. Arthur and the adjoining illustration, showing a “sitting” session at the daguerreotypist’s, and featuring in prominent position a dog. This dog seems to acknowledge the humiliation of his master by the process and thus to suggest a social interpretation of the daguerreotype portrait protocol. I conclude with a lexicological and contextual analysis of the phrase “dog-type” and its various possible meanings, whether satirical or not. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-72ba69d0b3334c3b98eaaca64d0924202022-12-22T02:41:17ZengAssociation Française d'Etudes AméricainesTransatlantica1765-27662012-05-01210.4000/transatlantica.5521Dog-type : amours de chiens, chiennes d’images et types ordinaires dans le daguerréotype américainFrançois BrunetThis article seeks to elucidate the phrase “dog-type” as applied colloquially to the daguerreotype in several American sources of the mid-19th century. After a glimpse at the photographic representation of animals in the medium’s first decades, I sketch out the role of the dog figure in American daguerreotype portraiture. This is followed by a close reading of a story published in 1849 by T.S. Arthur and the adjoining illustration, showing a “sitting” session at the daguerreotypist’s, and featuring in prominent position a dog. This dog seems to acknowledge the humiliation of his master by the process and thus to suggest a social interpretation of the daguerreotype portrait protocol. I conclude with a lexicological and contextual analysis of the phrase “dog-type” and its various possible meanings, whether satirical or not.http://journals.openedition.org/transatlantica/5521animal photographydaguerreotypedogidea of photography.portraitT.S. Arthur |
| spellingShingle | François Brunet Dog-type : amours de chiens, chiennes d’images et types ordinaires dans le daguerréotype américain Transatlantica animal photography daguerreotype dog idea of photography. portrait T.S. Arthur |
| title | Dog-type : amours de chiens, chiennes d’images et types ordinaires dans le daguerréotype américain |
| title_full | Dog-type : amours de chiens, chiennes d’images et types ordinaires dans le daguerréotype américain |
| title_fullStr | Dog-type : amours de chiens, chiennes d’images et types ordinaires dans le daguerréotype américain |
| title_full_unstemmed | Dog-type : amours de chiens, chiennes d’images et types ordinaires dans le daguerréotype américain |
| title_short | Dog-type : amours de chiens, chiennes d’images et types ordinaires dans le daguerréotype américain |
| title_sort | dog type amours de chiens chiennes d images et types ordinaires dans le daguerreotype americain |
| topic | animal photography daguerreotype dog idea of photography. portrait T.S. Arthur |
| url | http://journals.openedition.org/transatlantica/5521 |
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