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PHOTOGRAPHY, REPRESENTATION, AND INDUSTRIAL CAPITALISM IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
PHOTOGRAPHY, REPRESENTATION, AND INDUSTRIAL CAPITALISM IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
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Photography emerged from the political, economic, social, and cultural upheaval known as Western modernity. This dramatic reordering transformed nearly every aspect of society, including visual culture. Scholars assert that industrial capitalism was a necessary precondition for photographic representation. As a new “middle” class between the aristocracy and the proletariat, the rising bourgeoisie demanded access to new forms of commemoration following the pictorial styles and conventions long used by royalty and the wealthy. This lecture explores the camera’s role in the democratization of visual culture beginning in the 1830s, debates about whether photographs were highbrow works of art or vulgar mechanical reproductions, and concerns that the commodification of imagery threatened the aura, prestige, and market value of traditional painting and portraiture.
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Willie Hiatt
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1 lecture(s)
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Thursday, 10:30am - 12:30pm
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May 25, 2023