Modern Dream of Order, the: Victoria, Photography and the Social Imagination
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Author: Eva Ehninger
This book redefines the history of modernity by focusing on how people used photography to affirm continuity and social stability during a time de- fined by rapid transition in every field of life. By the early 1860s, commercial portrait photography had become an everyday experience. Through their daily reception and interpretation, photographs were utilized to constructand consolidate social relations and to imagine social order visually. Queen Victoria’s ubiquitous photographic presence in private and communal contexts demonstrates how the new visual media re-enforced the power of conventional concepts of order and stability. Critical reflection on this mechanism is crucial to understanding current media practices as well.
ISBN 9783111124551. De Gruyter. hb. 304 pages. 130 colour ills. 28 x 21 cm.
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This book redefines the history of modernity by focusing on how people used photography to affirm continuity and social stability during a time de- fined by rapid transition in every field of life. By the early 1860s, commercial portrait photography had become an everyday experience. Through their daily reception and interpretation, photographs were utilized to constructand consolidate social relations and to imagine social order visually. Queen Victoria’s ubiquitous photographic presence in private and communal contexts demonstrates how the new visual media re-enforced the power of conventional concepts of order and stability. Critical reflection on this mechanism is crucial to understanding current media practices as well.
ISBN 9783111124551. De Gruyter. hb. 304 pages. 130 colour ills. 28 x 21 cm.
not yet published