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 exploring how people used photography to affirm continuity & social stability during a time defined by rapid transition in all fields of life. By the early 1860s, commercial portrait photography had become a part of the everyday. Through their daily reception and interpretation, photographs were utilised to construct and consolidate social relations & to imagine social order visually, exemplified by the ubiquitous photographic presence of Queen Victoria. In this book, critical reflection on this mechanism allows readers to better understand how this affects 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 exploring how people used photography to affirm continuity & social stability during a time defined by rapid transition in all fields of life. By the early 1860s, commercial portrait photography had become a part of the everyday. Through their daily reception and interpretation, photographs were utilised to construct and consolidate social relations & to imagine social order visually, exemplified by the ubiquitous photographic presence of Queen Victoria. In this book, critical reflection on this mechanism allows readers to better understand how this affects current media practices as well.
ISBN 9783111124551. De Gruyter. hb. 304 pages. 130 colour ills. 28 x 21 cm.
available