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Francesca Strobino is an AHRC CDP PhD student at Æß²ÊÖ±²¥ and National Science and Media Museum, Bradford, investigating Talbot’s experiments in photomechanical printing. During her studies (BA in Cultural Heritage, University of Urbino, 2012; MA in Art History, University of Florence, 2016; MA in Photographic History, Æß²ÊÖ±²¥, 2018) she worked in the organization of the Contemporary Photography Festival SIFEST (2015-2017) and took part in inventory and digitization projects at the Scuola Normale Superiore (Pisa, 2015) and the Fotosammlung Ruth und Peter Herzog (Basel, 2018-19). Her main research interests involve history of photomechanical processes, printing history, history of scientific illustration, and popularisation of scientific knowledge.

• Photographic History Research Centre
• Institute of Art and Design

2017 Francesca Strobino, Tradizione e modernità: la doppia anima della
Società fotografica Italiana 1889-1915, “RSF. Rivista di studi di fotografia”, n. 5, September 2017, pp. 82-101. (DOI: )

2016 Tiziana Serena, Francesca Strobino, La fotografia, le arti fotomeccaniche e Il Risorgimento Grafico: un rendez-vous mancato, in “Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa”, Classe di Lettere e Filosofia, serie 5, 8/2, December 2016, pp. 383-414.

• Photographic History
• History of Photomechanical Processes
• Material Culture
• History of Scientific Illustration
• Visual Science and Technology Studies
• Popularisation of Scientific Knowledge
• History of Science
• History of Printing

• MA in Photographic History, Æß²ÊÖ±²¥, UK (2018)
• MA in History of Art, University of Florence, IT (2016)
• BA in Cultural Heritage, University of Urbino, IT (2012)

PhD title

Investigating William Henry Fox Talbot’s experiments in photomechanical printing.

Abstract

The project investigates the historical contexts of photography’s invention as a printing technology within early nineteenth-century scientific discourse. Utilising the collection of William Henry Fox Talbot’s experiments in the National Science and Media Museum, Bradford, the investigation re-evaluates Talbot’s experiments in photomechanical printing as an essential chapter in photographic history.

Kelley Wilder, Geoffrey Belknap, Beatriz Pichel