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Schwartz Vanessa R., Przyblyski Jeannene M. (ed.) The Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture ReaderNew York, London : Routledge, 2009, XVI-405 p.ISBN 978-0-415-30866-3Résumé :The nineteenth century is central to contemporary discussions of visual culture, as it saw the growth of new visual technologies such as photography and cinema, and development of the modern city and consumer societies. The editors of this Reader have brought together key writtings on this subject which focus on the nineteenth century, suggesting that "modernity" rather than "Modernism" is a valuable way of conceiving the changes particular to visual culture in this period. Taken together these articles advance not just knowledge of the period but also the very consciousness of vision and visuality in this era.The reader comprises the following sections, each with an introduction by the editors :- Visual culture and disciplinary pratices- Genealogies- Technology and vision- Practices of display and the circulation of images- Cities and the built environment- Visualizing the past- Imagining differences- Inside and out : seeing the personal and the politicalVanessa R. Schwartz is associate professor of history at the University of Southern California. She is the author of Spectacular realities : early mass culture in fin-de-siècle Paris (1998) and co-editor, with Leo Charney, of Cinema and the invention of modern life (1996).Jeannene M. Przyblyski teaches in the graduate program at the San Francisco Art Institute and is executive director of the San Francisco Bureau of Urban Secrets, an arts and urbanism think tank. She has published widely on photography and cities.Axe de recherche :Axe transversal : cultures visuelles