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amateur photographers
amateur photography
American consumer culture
American mobility
archival practices
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collective memory construction
community photography
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cultural democratization
cultural heritage photography
cultural memory
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democratization of image making
documenting lived experience
early advertising and photography
early camera technology
Eastman Kodak legacy
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everyday photography
evolving media practices
historical leisure practices
historical photo practices
historical tourism imagery
history of photography
image-based memory
inclusive visual history
indigenous self-representation
invention of snapshot
Kodak
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leisure culture
marginalized photographers
mass media influence
material culture studies
media history
memory
modern visual identity
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personal archiving
personal documentation
personal image making
photographic archives
photographic self-expression
photographic tourism
photography and identity
photography and modernity
photography and social class
photography as empowerment
picturing modern life
popular visual culture
portable photography
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public space and photography
queer visual history
race and representation
representation in photography
social history of technology
social history of travel
social reform imagery
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technological modernity
technology and society
tourism
tourism studies
travel narratives
turn of the century innovation
visual anthropology
visual authorship
visual autobiography
visual culture history
visual documentation
visual narrative formation
visual storytelling
Product details
- ISBN 9781625345325
- Weight: 275g
- Dimensions: 152 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 27 Nov 2020
- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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In 1888, the Eastman Dry Plate and Film Company offered the first portable camera that allowed users to conveniently take photos, using leisure travel as a primary marketing feature to promote it. The combination of portability, ease of use, and mass advertising fed into a national trend of popular photography that drew on Americans' increasing mobility and leisure time. The Kodak Company and the first generation of tourist photographers established new standards for personal archiving that amplified the individual's role in authoring the national narrative. But not everyone had equal access to travel and tourism, and many members of the African American, Native American, and gay and lesbian communities used the camera to counter the racism, homophobia, and classism that shaped public spaces.
In this groundbreaking history, Tammy S. Gordon tells the story of the camera's emerging centrality in leisure travel across the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and its role in "the mass production of memory," a process in which users crafted a visual archive attesting to their experiences, values, and circumstances, setting the stage for the customizable visual culture of the digital age.
Tammy S. Gordon is professor of history at North Carolina State University and author of The Spirit of 1976: Commerce, Community, and the Politics of Commemoration.
