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The Modern Dream of Order - Victoria, Photography, and the Social Imagination

English · Hardback

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Dieses Buch wirft ein neues Licht auf die Geschichte der Moderne, indem es untersucht, wie Fotografie genutzt wurde, um sich der Kontinuität und sozialen Stabilität in einer Zeit des raschen Wandels in allen Lebensbereichen zu versichern. In den frühen 1860er Jahren war die kommerzielle Porträtfotografie allgegenwärtig. Täglich rezipiert und interpretiert dienten Fotografien dazu, soziale Beziehungen zu konstruieren, zu festigen und die gesellschaftliche Ordnung zu visualisieren. Die fotografische Präsenz von Queen Victoria in privaten wie gemeinschaftlichen Kontexten zeigt, wie die neuen visuellen Medien die Macht der Konvention von Ordnung und Stabilität untermauerten. Eine kritische Reflexion dieses Mechanismus ist auch für das Verständnis aktueller Medienpraktiken von entscheidender Bedeutung.

About the author

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

Summary

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 all every field 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.

Product details

Authors Eva Ehninger
Publisher De Gruyter
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 16.06.2025
 
EAN 9783111124551
ISBN 978-3-11-112455-1
No. of pages 304
Illustrations 127 col. ill.
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV

Fotografie, Soziologie, Kunst, Kunstgeschichte, Verstehen, Porträt, Bild, Grossbritannien, Image, Fotografie: Porträts & Selbstporträts, Moderne, Kunst: Grundlagen und Techniken, Gesellschaft, Kulturwissenschaften, Porträts & Selbstporträts in der Kunst, Photography & photographs, Photography, Sociology, Society, United Kingdom, The arts: general issues, ART000000 ART / General, Portrait, Photographic equipment & techniques, Sociology: customs & traditions, Fotografiegeschichte, History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900, Kunst im öffentlichen Raum, Great Britain, Queen Victoria, Art techniques & principles, ART015000 ART / History / General, ART037000 ART / Art & Politics, Fotografie: fachspezifische Techniken und Prinzipien, ART062000 ART / Public Art, PHO000000 Photography / General, PHO010000 Photography / History, ART023000 ART / Popular Culture, SOC000000 SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, Population & demography, Portraits in art, SOC026000 SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Commercial photography, History of Photography, ART015030 ART / European, ART050040 ART / Subjects & Themes / Portraits, SOC022000 SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, SOC006000 SOCIAL SCIENCE / Demography, SOC010000 SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, PHO018000 Photography / Techniques / General, PHO021000 Photography / Commercial, kommerzielle Fotografie

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