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

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Includes bibliographical references and index

contains biographical information

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The extraordinary archive of Arthur J. Munby

bibliography

Sarah Edge

International Library of Visual Culture, 14

photographing class and gender in the nineteenth century

"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." From Backcover

Acknowledgements -- Introduction: the Munby archive. 1 Academically locating the archive: history and theory of photography - the nineteenth century : Photography's pre-industrial age: 1850-60 -- Back to the archive -- The urban collection. 2 What is a photograph? 3 The city, photography and relations of looking : Munby, photography and the flâneur -- Mid-Victorian painting and the imagining of class -- Photography and class in the mid-Victorian period. 4 Who was Munby? Useful readings of the Munby archive : Munby: the flâneur and man about town. 5 Munby and the turn to photography: Hannah, the private urban collection and the search for photography truth : Taking "attitudes": the photographic of Hannah Cullwick. 6 Starting to collect: Munby and his turn to commercially produced photographs of working-class women : Ensuring urban authenticity and controlling photographic indexicality -- "Photographic hunting and people studying": photography and the new urban working class -- Photograph acceptance: replacing the text with the image. 7 Dressing above your station and making it work for him: domestic photographs of the urban working-class woman : Maidservants in working dress -- The inherent problem of indexicality, gazing and power -- Three photographs: three problems -- Accepting photographic veracity and the formation of photographic genres in the 1860s and the 1870s -- Photography and the formation and control of class difference. 8 Under the skin: Munby's photographs of facially disfigured women - the real and symbolic : Photography and the abject body -- Photography, the real and the inhumanity of power. Appendix: the photographic archive : Album one -- Album two -- Album three -- Album four -- Album five -- Album six -- Album seven -- Miscellaneous -- The shelves. Notes -- BIbliography -- Index