Author: Hargreaves, Roger
Title: The Beautiful and the Damned: The Creation of Identity in Nineteenth-Century Photography
Description: Aldershot, Lund Humphries, 2001. Hardcover. A black casebound book. There is a dust jacket with white text down a gray spine. Pages: (6), 1-121, (1). Contains many black-and-white images. "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. G-/VG: Exlibrary book. Sticker on the dust jacket at the base of the spine. Significant rip to the back of the dust jacket, essentially removing the lower left corner. No text or image is affected. Stamp on the front free end page. Sticker on the back pasted end page. Stamps on all text blocks. Clean pages and solid binding- remains a perfect reading copy.

Keywords: Photography ; Nineteenth Century Photography ; ;


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