Doings of the Sunbeam: Lady Annie Brassey's Albums & Modes of Collecting, Arranging & Exhibiting Photographs in the Nineteenth Century

本文将探讨安妮·布拉西女士（1839-1887）的摄影画册制作，她是一位以环球航行而闻名的旅行家、收藏家和作家。作为我的MAArt History研究的一部分，我将继续研究Brassey在19世纪对地形摄影实践的贡献，特别是在相册中收集、整理和展示照片；这种艺术创作模式被认为是女性的消遣，但在学术方面却被广泛忽视，最近，帕特里齐亚·迪·贝罗等学者开辟了这一研究领域。布拉西是苏塞克斯郡的居民，他的核心文物收藏主要集中在黑斯廷斯和贝克斯希尔博物馆。这个项目将集中在苏塞克斯黑斯廷斯图书馆和Keep档案馆的大量摄影材料上，而她的许多专辑现在都保存在美国。这篇论文将进一步加深我们对一位女性形象的理解，有助于我们了解19世纪的摄影，揭示交流与合作的网络，拓宽摄影史的短视经典。

This thesis will explore the production of photographicalbums by Lady Annie Brassey (1839-1887), a traveller,collector and writer famed for her circumnavigationalvoyages. Continuing research undertaken as part of my MAArt History studies, I will focus on Brassey's contribution tophotographic practices in the 19th century, particularly thecollecting, arrangement and display of photographs withinalbums; deemed a feminine pastime, this mode of artisticproduction has been widely overlooked in terms ofscholarship, with academics such as Patrizia di Bello havingrecently opened up this area of study. A Sussex resident,Brassey's core collections of artefacts largely occupyHastings & Bexhill Museums. This project will focus on thesignificant body of photographic material that remains inSussex at Hastings Library and The Keep Archives, whereasmany of her albums are now kept in the US. Further to ourunderstanding of one female figure, this thesis willcontribute to our knowledge of photography within thenineteenth century, revealing networks of exchange andcollaboration, and broadening the myopic canon ofphotographic history.