1st Edition
Travel Marketing and Popular Photography in Britain, 1888–1939 Reading the Travel Image
By Sara Dominici
Copyright 2018
220 Pages
31 Color & 60 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
236 Pages
31 Color & 60 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
236 Pages
31 Color & 60 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book explores how popular photography influenced the representation of travel in Britain in the period from the Kodak-led emergence of compact cameras in 1888, to 1939. The book examines the implications of people’s increasing familiarity with the language and possibilities of photography on the representation of travel as educational concerns gave way to commercial imperatives. Sara... Read more
Contents
List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
1. Introduction: Reading Travel Images
2. Travelling and Photographing: Social Norms and Personal Motivations
3. The Education of Tourist Photographers
4. The Interwar Years: Tourists’ Desires and Photographic Competitions
5. Photography, Commercial Art and Branding
6. Conclusion: Towards New Photographic Histories
Index
Biography
Sara Dominici is a Lecturer in Cultural Studies and Course Leader for the MA in Art and Visual Culture at the University of Westminster, London. Her writing focuses on the history and culture of photography, the relationship between photography and the archive, and cultural studies.
