Galleries of Friendship and Fame: A History of Nineteenth-Century American Photograph Albums by Siegel, Elizabeth

Galleries of Friendship and Fame: A History of Nineteenth-Century American Photograph Albums (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780300154061)

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Galleries of Friendship and Fame: A History of Nineteenth-Century American Photograph Albums by Siegel, Elizabeth

Galleries of Friendship and Fame: A History of Nineteenth-Century American Photograph Albums

$72.00
Galleries of Friendship and Fame: A History of Nineteenth-Century American Photograph Albums by Siegel, Elizabeth

Galleries of Friendship and Fame: A History of Nineteenth-Century American Photograph Albums

$72.00
Format: Hardcover
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Galleries of Friendship and Fame is the first comprehensive investigation of the origin, development, and practices of 19th-century American photograph albums. In this fascinating book, the author argues that the album--whether functioning as family record, parlor entertainment, social register, national portrait gallery, or advertisement for photography itself--helped transform the nature of self-presentation at the cusp of modernity.

This handsome volume examines carte de visite and cabinet card albums from their introduction in the United States in 1861 through the rise of the snapshot at the century's end. By examining a wealth of previously overlooked primary materials, this study offers a completely new understanding of photograph albums, revealing how they emerged, how they were marketed and sold, and how families displayed and told stories through them. Galleries of Friendship and Fame addresses the history of technology and innovation, the interconnectedness of the commercial and domestic spheres, and the ways photography helped shape notions of identity, family, and nation in a rapidly changing America.

Author: Elizabeth Siegel
ISBN-10: 0300154062
ISBN-13: 9780300154061
Publisher: Yale University Press
Language: English
Published: 06/01/2010
Pages: 216
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.20lbs
Size: 10.20h x 7.20w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 11/01/2010

By Elizabeth Siegel
By Elizabeth Siegel
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Elizabeth Siegel is Associate Curator of Photography at the Art Institute of Chicago and author of Playing with Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage.

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