Women's Albums and Photography in Victorian England Ladies, Mothers and Flirts

Name: Women's Albums and Photography in Victorian England Ladies, Mothers and Flirts
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ISBN: 9780754658559

ISBN-10: 0754658554

ISBN-13: 9780754658559

Edition: 2007

Authors: Patrizia Di Bello

List price: $175.00

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This beautifully illustrated study recaptures the rich history of women photographers and image collectors in nineteenth-century England. Situating the practice of collecting, exchanging and displaying photographs and other images in the context of feminine sociability, Patrizia Di Bello shows that albums express Victorian women's experience of modernity. The albums of individual women, and the broader feminine culture of collecting and displaying imagesare examined, uncovering the cross-references and fertilizations between women's albums and illustrated periodicals, and demonstrating the way albums and photography, itself, were represented in women's magazines, fashion plates, and popular…

Book details

List price: $175.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 5/31/2016
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 200
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Contents


Introduction


The family album, the feminine and the personal


19th-century album culture


Photographs, albums, women's magazines


Melancholic portrait gazers


Photographs, fun and flirtations


Photography, vision and touch


Bibliography


Index