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Subject(s)

• Bayard, Hippolyte 1801-1887 [Browse]
• Photographers—Portraits [Browse]
• Portrait photography—France—History—19th century [Browse]
• Photography—Social aspects—France—History—19th century [Browse]

Series

Routledge history of photography. [More in this series]

Summary note

"This book explores a range of experimental self-portraits made in France between 1840 and 1870, including remarkable images by Hippolyte Bayard, Nadar, Duchenne de Boulogne, and Countess de Castiglione. Adapting photography for different social purposes, each of these pioneers showcased their own body as a living artifact and iconic attraction. Examining performative specimens of early photography, Jillian Lerner considers the medium's uncanny transformation of identity and embodiment. She highlights the tactical importance of photographic demonstrations, promotions, conversations, and the mongrel forms of montage, painted photographs, albums, and personal correspondence. The author shows how photographic practices are mobilized in diverse cultural contexts, and enmeshed with the histories of art, science, publicity, urban spectacle, and private life in nineteenth-century France. Tracing calculated and creative approaches to a new medium, this research also contributes to an archaeology of the present. It furnishes a prehistory of the "selfie" and offers historical perspectives on the forces that reshape human perception and social experience. This interdisciplinary study will appeal to readers interested in photography, the history of photography, art, visual culture, and media studies"-- Provided by publisher.

Source of description

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Contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Notes
• Chapter 1 The drowned inventor: Bayard, Daguerre, and the curious attractions of early photography
• The corpse of the drowned inventor
• The morgue
• Modes of display and disclosure
• Recognition
• Publicity, revelation, and theatricality
• Chapter 2 The artist as brand: The many faces and signatures of Nadar
• Signatures, specialties, self-portraits
• From caricature to photography: réclame and the charged photograph
• Montage techniques and contexts
• Chapter 3 Poses of a living statue: Countess de Castiglione and the photographic tableau
• Fournier: the album as self-portrait
• Stealthy touch/female diplomacy
• Sovereign images
• Reframing Countess Castiglione
• Authorship
• Cast from nature
• Dialectical images
• Masquerade as non-disguise
• Non/exhibitionism
• The legs revisited
• Chapter 4 Affect as evidence: Dr. Duchenne and the scientific self-portrait
• Portrait/specimen
• Animated cadaver
• Anatomical illustration
• Authors, instruments, primal scenes
• Affect as evidence/attention
• Bibliography
• Index.

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ISBN

• 1-00-310550-5
• 1-003-10550-5
• 1-000-21482-6

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