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Photography : the origins 1839-1890.
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ISBN: 9788857207186 9788857210322 9788857215082 9788857220543 8857210324 8857215083 8857220540 8857207188 Year: 2010 Publisher: Milano Skira

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This history of photography which, marking an ideal continuity with the Art of the 20th century series, will be able to respond to the needs for correct information to a general public and supply more specialized investigation of the medium. The first volume (1839 - 1890) of the History of Photography series considers the years of the invention of photography and those immediately following.


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Galleries of friendship and fame : a history of nineteenth-century American photograph albums.
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ISBN: 9780300154061 Year: 2010 Publisher: New Haven (Conn.) Yale university press

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Galleries of Friendship and Fame is the first comprehensive investigation of the origin, development, and practices of 19th-century American photograph albums. In this fascinating book, the author argues that the album—whether functioning as family record, parlor entertainment, social register, national portrait gallery, or advertisement for photography itself—helped transform the nature of self-presentation at the cusp of modernity.

This handsome volume examines carte de visite and cabinet card albums from their introduction in the United States in 1861 through the rise of the snapshot at the century’s end. By examining a wealth of previously overlooked primary materials, this study offers a completely new understanding of photograph albums, revealing how they emerged, how they were marketed and sold, and how families displayed and told stories through them. Galleries of Friendship and Fame addresses the history of technology and innovation, the interconnectedness of the commercial and domestic spheres, and the ways photography helped shape notions of identity, family, and nation in a rapidly changing America.

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