The Modern Dream of Order
Victoria, Photography, and the Social Imagination
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher De Gruyter
- Date of Publication 2 July 2025
- ISBN 9783111124551
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages252 pages
- Size 280x210 mm
- Weight 1076 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 127 Illustrations, color 592
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Long description:
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.
Dieses Buch wirft ein neues Licht auf die Geschichte der Moderne, indem es untersucht, wie Fotografie genutzt wurde, um sich der Kontinuit?t und sozialen Stabilit?t in einer Zeit des raschen Wandels in allen Lebensbereichen zu versichern. In den fr?hen 1860er Jahren war die kommerzielle Portr?tfotografie allgegenw?rtig. T?glich rezipiert und interpretiert dienten Fotografien dazu, soziale Beziehungen zu konstruieren, zu festigen und die gesellschaftliche Ordnung zu visualisieren. Die fotografische Pr?senz von Queen Victoria in privaten wie gemeinschaftlichen Kontexten zeigt, wie die neuen visuellen Medien die Macht der Konvention von Ordnung und Stabilit?t untermauerten. Eine kritische Reflexion dieses Mechanismus ist auch f?r das Verst?ndnis aktueller Medienpraktiken von entscheidender Bedeutung.
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