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The Beautiful and the Damned: The Creation of Identity in Nineteenth-Century Photography
by Hargreaves, Roger; Hamilton, Peter
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0853318212
- ISBN 13
- 9780853318217
- Seller
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Gloucester, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
Lund Humphries, 2001. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 230mm x 265mm. Jacket has light general wear and no tears. A small area of eraser rubbing to top corner of ffep, otherwise internally very clean. Binding tight. 121pp The Beautiful and the Damned looks for the first time at the broad social and cultural context for the development of portrait photography in the nineteenth century, showing how social and celebrity portraiture on the one hand, and scientific photography on the other, were different facets of the nineteenth-century fascination with classification and ordering. Between 1860 and 1900, editions of celebrity portraits, as well as the vogue for the carte de visite, fuelled the fashion for collecting and classifying photographs of the face. In an age of rapid industrialisation and the growth of the middle classes, the carte de visite became a means of conferring social status, and family albums - which often incorporated photographs of royalty and public figures - were used to position family members within society at large..
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- Bookseller
- Lectioz Books
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 027181
- Title
- The Beautiful and the Damned: The Creation of Identity in Nineteenth-Century Photography
- Author
- Hargreaves, Roger; Hamilton, Peter
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0853318212
- ISBN 13
- 9780853318217
- Publisher
- Lund Humphries
- Place of Publication
- Aldershot, Hampshire, United Kingdom
- Date Published
- 2001
- Size
- 230mm x 265mm
- Bookseller catalogs
- Photography;
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...