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The heterogeneity of lantern slide heritage poses researchers a considerable challenge. This second part of a two-part special issue of I Early Popular Visual Culture i concerning the international magic lantern (following issue 17:1 on assorted national traditions) offers some other approaches for thinking through alternative networks of magic lantern use. Sarah Dellmann draws upon her first-hand knowledge of the process of digitising magic lantern slides for the Lucerna Magic Lantern Web Resource in order to open a broad-ranging study of the implications - practical, aesthetic, ethical and ideological - for the creation of large-scale databases of these materials. Again, this framing of lantern slide material has epistemic consequences for users of the app, and the authors reflect in conclusion on alternative structures that might have been used. [Extracted from the article] |
