Sarah Edge

The Extraordinary Archive of Arthur J. Munby (eBook, PDF)

Photographing Class and Gender in the Nineteenth Century

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

In the mid-1860s Arthur J Munby began to collect the first mass-produced photographic images of working-class women in England, recording fascinating details about the women, the places he purchased the photographs and the raging debates on this new commercial practice of photography, in accompanying diaries

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000211733
• Artikelnr.: 60674683

Autorenporträt

Sarah Edge is Professor of Photography and Cultural Studies at the University of Ulster

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Munby Archive 1 Academically Locating the Archive: History and Theory of Photography - The Nineteenth Century 2 What is a Photograph? 3 Th e City, Photography and Relations of Looking 4 Who was Munby? Useful Readings of the Munby Archive 5 Munby and the Turn to Photography: Hannah, the Private Urban Collection and the Search for Phot, 7 Dressing Above Your Station and Making it Work for Him: Domestic Photographs of the Urban Working-C lass Woman 8 Under the Skin: Munby's Photographs of Facially Disfigured Women - Th e Real and the Symbolic, Appendix: Th e Photographic Archiveographic Truth 6 Starting to Collect: Munby and his Turn to Commercially Produced Photographs of Working-C lass Women

Rezensionen

Reading this book, I experienced the same astonishment that I have felt reading previous studies of Munby ... The notes, records, sketches, and photographs brought together in the archive are of the utmost importance to historians of nineteenth-century society and culture and, as we now also appreciate, to historians of photography. - Victorian Studies