Women's Albums and Photography in Victorian England
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Album Making
Album Pages
Albumen Prints
Author_Patrizia Di Bello
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Clementina Hawarden
Cut Paper Work
Drawing Room Table
Earl De Grey
Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine
Englishwoman’s Domestic Magazine
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feminine domesticity studies
gender and visual culture
George Birkbeck
Gernsheim Collection
Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center
Heath's Book
Heath’s Book
Henry Fox
Henry Fox Talbot
history of women's photographic albums
image collecting practices
Lady Clementina Hawarden
Lady's Newspaper
Lady’s Newspaper
Mark Haworth Booth
Mexico Art Museum
Mrs Erlynne
Nineteenth Century Albums
Nineteenth Century Photography
nineteenth-century sociability
periodical illustration analysis
Photographic Family Album
Sydney Waterlow
Victorian material culture
Women's Albums
womens
Women’s Albums
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780754658559
- Weight: 320g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Jul 2007
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This beautifully illustrated study recaptures the rich history of women photographers and image collectors in nineteenth-century England. Situating the practice of collecting, exchanging and displaying photographs and other images in the context of feminine sociability, Patrizia Di Bello shows that albums express Victorian women's experience of modernity. The albums of individual women, and the broader feminine culture of collecting and displaying imagesare examined, uncovering the cross-references and fertilizations between women's albums and illustrated periodicals, and demonstrating the way albums and photography, itself, were represented in women's magazines, fashion plates, and popular novels. Bringing a sophisticated eye to overlooked images such as the family photograph, Di Bello not only illustrates their significance as historical documents but elucidates the visual rhetorics at play. In doing so, she identifies the connections between Victorian album-making and the work of modern-day amateurs and artists who use digital techniques to compile and decorate albums with Victorian-style borders and patterns. At a time when photographic album-making is being re-vitalised by digital technologies, this book rewrites the history of photographic albums, placing the female collector at its centre and offering an alternative history of photography focused on its uses rather than on its aesthetic or artistic considerations. It is remarkable in elegantly connecting the history of photography with the fields of material culture and women's studies.
Patrizia Di Bello is lecturer in the history and theory of photography at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK.
