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Material Vision : A Portrait Of Change From Victorianism To Modernism In America, Anne Liljedahl Schock
Material Vision : A Portrait Of Change From Victorianism To Modernism In America, Anne Liljedahl Schock
MALS Final Projects, 1995-2019
This study is a portrait of Victorian culture in America as it is represented in the photographic album and an examination of the album as an artifact of material culture. The album is viewed as a material and visual reference and the photograph as an historical document. Parallels are drawn between the album's structure, pictorial content and presentation, and compare similarly to the infra-structure of the society. A series of four photographic collections establish a chronology from the 1860s to the early twentieth century, while each documents the changes in the process and presentation of the photographic medium respectively, the …