... Chapter 3 turns to platinum and the theme of atmosphere. The pictorialists championed the atmospheric aesthetics of platinum prints, but platinum and atmosphere also have a material dimension: platinum prints were a chemically stable alternative to silver prints, which were vulnerable to growing...

...Atmospheres of Doubt According to established notions of authoritarianism, the withholding of information enables domination. By contrast, in the context of Syria’s uprising and autocratic retrenchment, it is information excess that gets exploited for political gain. The Syrian example also...