Ms Francesca Strobino

Francesca Strobino is an AHRC CDP PhD student at De Montfort University 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, DMU, 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: https://doi.org/10.14601/RSF-21201)

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, De Montfort University, 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