Photography, Natural History and the Nineteenth-Century Museum: Exchanging Views of Empire (Science and the Arts Since 1750)

About the Author

Kathleen Davidson teaches art history at the University of Sydney. Her recent publications include 'Colonial Science and Photographic Portraits' in Judy Annear (ed.), The Photograph and Australia (AGNSW Press, 2015); 'Connecting the Senses: Natural History and the British Museum in the Stereoscopic Magazine', 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century (2014); 'Speculative Viewing: Victorians' Encounters with Coral Reefs' in Grace Moore and Michelle Smith (eds.), Victorian Environments (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming); and 'Photography and the Triumph of Science in European Vision and the South Pacific' in Jaynie Anderson and Christopher Marshall (eds.), The Multiple Legacies of Bernard Smith (Power Publications & AGNSW Press, 2016). Previously, she was Curator of International Photography at the National Gallery of Australia.