Caroline Douglas

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Retouching Postpartum

Douglas, Caroline (2022) Retouching Postpartum. In: ‘I Care By…’. RCA Research Communiqués, London. ISBN 978-1-8383543-3-6

Postpartum: Unlearning Conception and Photography

Douglas, Caroline (2021) Postpartum: Unlearning Conception and Photography. In: CARE(LESS), A Supplement To On Care. MA Biliothèque, London, pp. 33-36. ISBN 978-1-910055-86-1

A Conversation Tait / Maxwell

Douglas, Caroline (2020) A Conversation Tait / Maxwell. In: PROVA 5, The Urgency of the Arts. RCA Humanities Research Journal, London. ISBN 978-1-8383543-0-5

Article

Frederick Douglas: Witness to Early Scottish Photography

Douglas, Caroline (2021) Frederick Douglas: Witness to Early Scottish Photography. National Galleries of Scotland: Feature Articles.

Pictures and progress? Frederick Douglass and early Scottish photography

Douglas, Caroline (2021) Pictures and progress? Frederick Douglass and early Scottish photography. V&A Blog: News, articles and stories from the V&A.

Sonsy Fishwives: Gender and Class in Early Scottish Photography

Douglas, Caroline (2021) Sonsy Fishwives: Gender and Class in Early Scottish Photography. Studies in Photography, Spring. pp. 88-97. ISSN 1462-0510

Conference or Workshop Item

Pioneers of Colour: Fulhame and Somerville’s Protophotography

Douglas, Caroline (2023) Pioneers of Colour: Fulhame and Somerville’s Protophotography. In: Colour Matters 2023, 6-8 December 2023, Trinity College, University of Oxford.

'[he] had a very low opinion on the capacity of my sex’: Mary Somerville (1780-1872) – Protophotographer and Pioneer of Colour

Douglas, Caroline (2023) '[he] had a very low opinion on the capacity of my sex’: Mary Somerville (1780-1872) – Protophotographer and Pioneer of Colour. In: Feminist Histories of the Future, May 10 2023, The Henry Moore Institute.

Cloths of Gold and Experiments on Light

Douglas, Caroline (2021) Cloths of Gold and Experiments on Light. In: Colour Fever, 25 Oct. - 5 Nov. 2021, Victoria & Albert Museum.

Sonsy Fishwives: Gender and Class in Scotland’s Earliest Photographic Portraits

Douglas, Caroline (2020) Sonsy Fishwives: Gender and Class in Scotland’s Earliest Photographic Portraits. In: Ways of Seeing: Second Morton Photography Symposium, 29 October 2020, Glasgow Women's Library.

Spectre of a Woman

Douglas, Caroline (2019) Spectre of a Woman. In: Where Are The Women?, 8 Nov 2019, Scottish National Portrait Gallery.

Spectre of a Woman

Douglas, Caroline (2019) Spectre of a Woman. In: Women's Studies Group 1558 – 1837 Creative Summer Seminar, 17 Aug 2019, Foundling Museum, London.

Sonsy Fishwives

Douglas, Caroline (2019) Sonsy Fishwives. In: Speaking With, 12th June 2019, Royal College of Art.

Newhaven Madonna: Women and Early Photography in Scotland

Douglas, Caroline (2019) Newhaven Madonna: Women and Early Photography in Scotland. In: 2019 Association for Art History Summer Symposium Photography and Printed Matter, 3-4 June 2019, University of St Andrews.

Newhaven Madonna

Douglas, Caroline (2019) Newhaven Madonna. In: Afterlife of the Object, 18-22 June 2019, University of Copenhagen.

Spectre of a Woman: practice-led research into early photography's ‘unknown women’

Douglas, Caroline (2019) Spectre of a Woman: practice-led research into early photography's ‘unknown women’. In: Doctoral Researchers Network Summer Symposium, 10 May 2019, Lecture Room, Paul Mellon Centre.

Newhaven Madonna

Douglas, Caroline (2019) Newhaven Madonna. In: Say Something Back, 28 Feb 2019, TS Eliot Theatre, Merton College.

‘The Woman Who Was Alive There’: Hill and Adamson’s portrait of a Newhaven Fishwife

Douglas, Caroline (2019) ‘The Woman Who Was Alive There’: Hill and Adamson’s portrait of a Newhaven Fishwife. In: Women Work And Commerce In The Creative Industries 1750 - 1950, 8-9 Feb 2019, Victoria and Albert Museum and University of Westminster.

Artefact

The chloride of silver answers perfectly, 25 October 1835

Douglas, Caroline (2024) The chloride of silver answers perfectly, 25 October 1835. [Artefact]

Experiments on Light: On the action of the rays of the spectrum on vegetable juices (revisited)

Douglas, Caroline (2023) Experiments on Light: On the action of the rays of the spectrum on vegetable juices (revisited). [Artefact]

'Frederick Douglass : Witness to Early Scottish Photography', Common Good and Colonialism: How Does Collective Relate To The Common Good? (Study Resource)

Douglas, Caroline, Krauss, Annette, Stacey, Frances, Scott, Alison and Stria, Alix (2023) 'Frederick Douglass : Witness to Early Scottish Photography', Common Good and Colonialism: How Does Collective Relate To The Common Good? (Study Resource). [Artefact]

Unanchored Seaweeds: Anna Atkins, Two Readings

Douglas, Caroline (2023) Unanchored Seaweeds: Anna Atkins, Two Readings. [Artefact]

Experiments on Light (Mary Somerville)

Douglas, Caroline (2022) Experiments on Light (Mary Somerville). [Artefact]

She Probably Just Had the Sun in Her Eyes

Douglas, Caroline (2019) She Probably Just Had the Sun in Her Eyes. [Artefact]

Image

The sublime truths of science are no longer confined to the wealthy and the learned

Douglas, Caroline (2021) The sublime truths of science are no longer confined to the wealthy and the learned. [Image]

Video

Retouching The Archive: Encountering the Paper Calotype

Douglas, Caroline (2021) Retouching The Archive: Encountering the Paper Calotype. [Video]