Format:
xv, 400 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
,
25 cm
ISBN:
0190268972
,
9780190268978
Content:
"Consuming Identities restores the California gold rush to its rightful place as the first pivotal chapter in the American history of photography, and uncovers nineteenth-century San Francisco's position in the vanguard of modern visual culture"--
Content:
These lofty aspirants of fame : the making of the gold rush legend -- Ten times better than a letter : gold rush photography -- Base falsehoods and the genuine article : the visual economy of San Francisco -- From the cradle to the grave : visualizing the life cycle -- Visual desire : love, lust, and virtual reality -- Awful magnificence : Infamy, mortality, and armchair spectacles -- Celebrity culture and the gold rush metropolis
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis Seite 387-390
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Lippert, Amy K. DeFalco, 1979 - Consuming identities New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2018 ISBN 9780190877026
Language:
English
Keywords:
San Francisco, Calif.
;
Identität
;
Fotografie
;
Geschichte 1800-1900
;
San Francisco, Calif.
;
Goldrausch
;
Wirtschaftsentwicklung
;
Sozialer Wandel
;
Visuelle Kommunikation
;
Fotografie
;
Geschichte 1850-1900
