Beautiful and the Damned: The Creation of Identity in Nineteenth-Century Photography - Hardcover

Hargreaves, Roger; Hamilton, Peter; National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0853318212 ISBN 13: 9780853318217

Publisher: Lund Humphries Pub Ltd, 2001

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Roger Hargreaves is Education Officer at the National Portrait Gallery, London.

About this edition

• Publisher: Lund Humphries Pub Ltd
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0853318212
• ISBN 13: 9780853318217
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 121