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The extraordinary archive of Arthur J. Munby : photographing class and gender in the nineteenth century

Edge, Sarah, author

2018

Overview

In the mid-1860s Arthur J. Munby began to collect the first mass-produced photographic images of working-class women in England, recording fascinating details about the women, the places he purchased the photographs and the raging debates on this new commercial practice of photography, in accompanying diaries. Many of these images - not to mention Munby's fascinating diaries - have never been published before. This book examines this previously un-investigated archive, offering a fresh and arresting perspective on the interrelationships between photographic representations of working-class women, the creation of new identities of class and gender and the evolution of popular conceptions of photography itself.

• Publisher: I.B. Tauris
• Subject: Munby, Arthur Joseph, 1828-1910 Photograph collections. / Munby, Arthur Joseph, 1828-1910 Diaries. / Working class women Great Britain History 19th century Pictorial works. / Working class women Great Britain Social conditions 19th century Pictorial works.
• ISBN: 9781780766973

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
TR681.W6 E34 2018	1	BOOK	ARTS