Download This Paper'Each Picture Told a Story:' Photography in the Sherlock Holmes Adventures
22 Pages Posted: 8 Feb 2020 Last revised: 5 Dec 2023
Date Written: December 3, 2023
Abstract
The paper deals with four named actual or possible photographers in the Sherlock Holmes Canon, including Holmes himself. It also deals with numerous photographs in the Canon by unnamed photographers, concentrating on those photographs that Holmes possesses and shows to another person or persons. An appendix to the paper deals with photography in some contemporaneous fiction other than Conan Doyle's.
Also included are a few illustrations of scenes in the Canon depicting or possibly depicting photographs.
Keywords: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes, Photography
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
Katz, Leslie, 'Each Picture Told a Story:' Photography in the Sherlock Holmes Adventures (December 3, 2023). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3111335 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3111335
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