The Beautiful and the Damned by Roger Hargreaves

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The Beautiful and the Damned by Roger Hargreaves

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Summary

This text looks at the broad social and cultural context for the development of portrait photography in the 19th century, showing how social and celebrity portraiture on the one hand, and scientific photography on the other, were different facets of the era's fascination with classification.

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The Beautiful and the Damned by Roger Hargreaves

This text looks at the broad social and cultural context for the development of portrait photography in the 19th century, showing how social and celebrity portraiture on the one hand, and scientific photography on the other, were different facets of the era's fascination with classification.

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ISBN 13 9780853318217
ISBN 10 0853318212
Title The Beautiful and the Damned
Author Roger Hargreaves
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
Year published 2001-06-28
Number of pages 128
Prizes Winner of Kraszna-Krausz Book Award: Craft, Technology and Science 2002, Winner of Kraszna-Krausz Book Award 2002
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