| Description |
xi, 299 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-290) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: American archives. -- Prying eyes and middle-class magic in The house of seven gables. "Magnetic" daguerreotypes and the masculine gaze ; Evil eyes and feminine essence ; Making the house a home ; The public private sphere. -- The properties of blood. The blood that flows in subterranean pipes ; Blood, character, and race ; The spectacle of race ; Seeing bloodlines. -- Superficial depths. The portrait and the likeness: photographing the soul ; Class acts: real things and true performances ; The criminal body and the portrait of a type ; Consuming commodities: gender in the age of mechanical reproduction. -- "Baby's picture is always treasured": eugenics and the reproduction of whiteness in the family photograph album. Mechanically reproducing baby ; Reproducing racial inheritance ; Sentimental aura and the evidence of race. -- America coursing through her veins. From the bonds of love to bloodlines ; America's white aristocracy ; In the name of white womanhood ; "A heritage unique in the ages" -- Photographing the "American Negro": nation, race, and photography at the Paris Exposition of 1900. Racialized bodies, national character, and photographic documentation ; Making Americans ; Conserving race in the nation. -- Looking back: Pauline Hopkins's challenge to eugenics. Envisioning race: bodies on display in Hagar's daughter ; "Sons of one father" ; Excavating the hidden self ; Visions beyond the color line. -- Reconfiguring a masculine gaze. Visions of commodified identity in consumer culture ; Conspicuous consumption under a masculine gaze: rethinking gender in Sister Carrie ; Parting glances. -- Afterimages: A brief look at American visual culture in the 1990s. |
| Subject |
Portrait photography -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Portrait photography. |
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United States. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
United States -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
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Manners and customs. |
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Social classes -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Social classes. |
| ISBN |
0691004781 paperback alkaline paper |
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0691004773 cloth alkaline paper |
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9780691004778 cloth alkaline paper |
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9780691004785 paperback alkaline paper |
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