The Modern Dream of Order
About this book
This book redefines the history of modernity by focusing on how people used photography to affirm continuity and social stability during a time defined by rapid transition in every sphere of life. By the early 1860s, commercial portrait photography had become an everyday experience. Through their daily reception and interpretation, photographs were utilized to construct and consolidate social relations and to imagine social order visually. Queen Victoria’s ubiquitous photographic presence in private and communal contexts demonstrates how the new visual media re-enforced the power of conventional concepts of order and stability. Critical reflection on this mechanism is crucial to understanding current media practices as well.
Author / Editor information
Eva Ehninger, Professor of Modern Art History at the Institute of Art and Visual History and director of the Centre for Advanced Study inherit. heritage in transformation at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany
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Frontmatter
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Table of Contents
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The Madness of Being a Queen
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1 Queen on a Cardboard Card
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2 Society on an Album Page
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3 Family in the Drawing Room
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4 History in a Slide Set
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5 Queen in the Mud
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Acknowledgments
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Bibliography
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Image Credits
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