Beautiful and the Damned: The Creation of Identity in Nineteenth-Century Photography
by Hamilton/Roger Hargreaves, Peter
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- ISBN 13
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London: Lund Humphries, 2001. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover, 121 pages. 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 Record # 361574
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- Title
- Beautiful and the Damned: The Creation of Identity in Nineteenth-Century Photography
- Author
- Hamilton/Roger Hargreaves, Peter
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0853318212
- ISBN 13
- 9780853318217
- Publisher
- Lund Humphries
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2001
- Keywords
- Photography, History, , .
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- Photography;
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