Author: Joanna Gilmour
Title: Sideshow Alley: Infamy, the Macabre & the Portrait
Description: National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, 2015. First Edition, Hardcover. Fine Condition/Fine. 9780975103067 23.5cm x 15.5cm. viii, 187 pages, colour illustrations. Cream cloth, brown lettering and decoration, pictorial french fold jacket. "Featuring a sometimes disquieting selection of portraits, Sideshow Alley combines history, biography and the art of portraiture with true crime, scandal and sensation. National Portrait Gallery Curator Joanna Gilmour introduces the relationship between death and portraiture via a focus on the various ways in which artists, photographers and entrepreneurs made use of portraits of Australian convicts and criminals: the canny or unscrupulous publishers trading in salacious prints and penny dreadfuls; the otherwise respectable people who put carte de visite of serial killers into their family albums; the photographic studios doing a brisk trade in portraits of heroes and villains; and the waxworks proprietors who, with their 'Chambers of Horrors', turned violence, misfortune and the macabre into a lucrative art form." (publisher's blurb) Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 500 grams-1 kilos. Category: Photography; Death. ISBN/EAN: 9780975103067. Inventory No: 0035454.

Keywords: BZDB407 Photography; Death. Unbranded EAN: 9780975103067 Joanna Gilmour Sideshow Alley: Infamy, the Macabre & the Portrait Death


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