The beautiful and the damned : the creation of identity in nineteenth century photography / Peter Hamilton and Roger Hargreaves.
By: Hamilton, Peter
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Contributor(s): Hargreaves, Roger | National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain).
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BookPublisher: Aldershot ; Burlington, VT : Lund Humphries, 2001Description: 121 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.ISBN: 0853318212.Subject(s): Photography -- History -- 19th century -- Exhibitions | Portrait photography -- History -- 19th century -- Exhibitions | Photography -- Scientific applications -- History -- 19th century -- Exhibitions | Carte de visite photographs -- Exhibitions | Celebrities -- Portraits -- History -- 19th century -- Exhibitions | FaceDDC classification: 770.9034
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
This volume explores the broad social and cultural context for the development of portrait photography in the 19th century, showing how social and celebrity portraiture on the one hand, and scientific photography on the other, were different facets of the 19th-century fascination with classification and ordering.
Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at the National Portrait Gallery, 6 June-7 October, 2001.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 116-117) and index.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Acknowledgements (p. iv)
- Foreword (p. v)
- I The Beautiful and the Damned (p. 1)
- Social order and social classification (p. 5)
- II Putting Faces to the Names: Social and Celebrity Portrait Photography (p. 17)
- The social context of photography (p. 17)
- Portraits and biographies (p. 21)
- The business of the studio (p. 29)
- The age of collodion (p. 35)
- The vogue for the carte de visite (p. 43)
- The damned (p. 54)
- III Policing the Face (p. 57)
- Introduction (p. 57)
- Exploring the body and the mind: physiognomy, psychology and psychiatry (p. 63)
- Exploring the face: anthropology (p. 84)
- Exploring the face: criminology and the degenerate (p. 93)
- Conclusion (p. 107)
- IV Conclusion: Template for a New Order? (p. 109)
- Bibliography (p. 116)
- Timeline (p. 118)
- Glossary (p. 120)
- Index (p. 122)