Picturing the family
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Contents

  • Introduction
  • Learning outcomes
  • 1 How to avoid damage when handling photographs
  • 2 Background history
    • 2.1 Styles of photograph
      • 2.1.1 Card mounted photographs 1860–c.1914
      • 2.1.2 Postcards c. 1902–1950s
      • 2.1.3 Amateur snapshots 1880s–
    • 2.2 Photographs as primary sources
    • 2.3 Photographs as artefacts
    • 2.4 National variation
  • 3 The portrait tradition: ideology
    • 3.1 Introducing ideology in portraiture
    • 3.2 Idealisation
      • Activity 1
    • 3.3 Limited positive characterization
      • Activity 2
    • 3.4 Characterisation and sexual stereotyping
      • 3.4.1 Control of the sitter
      • Activity 3
  • 4 The portrait tradition: methodology
    • 4.1 Facial expression
    • 4.2 Pose
      • Activity 8
    • 4.3 Characterisation and sexual stereotyping
    • 4.4 Groups
      • Activity 10
    • 4.5 Touch
    • 4.6 Touch and feeling
    • 4.7 Exceptions
    • 4.8 Backgrounds and accessories
      • Purpose
      • Idealisation
      • 4.8.3 Personal possessions
    • 4.9 Lighting
      • 4.9.1 Natural light
      • 4.9.2 Idealisation
      • 4.9.3 Limited characterisation
    • 4.10 Retouching
    • 4.11 Colouring
    • 4.12 Key concepts
  • 5 Camera culture
    • 5.1 Capturing commemorative events
    • 5.2 Records of achievement
    • 5.3 Prized possessions
    • 5.4 Special occasions
    • 5.5 Rites of passage
      • 5.5.1 Christening
      • 5.5.2 Skirts and breeching
      • 5.5.3 Birthdays
      • 5.5.4 Confirmation
    • 5.6 Rites of passage (continued)
      • 5.6.1 Young adults
      • 5.6.2 Engagement and marriage
      • 5.6.3 Honeymoons
      • 5.6.4 Wedding anniversaries
    • 5.7 Rites of passage (continued)
      • Death
      • 5.7.2 Post-mortems
  • 6 Portraits in the open air
    • 6.1 The rise of the itinerant photographer
    • 6.2 Street photography
      • 6.2.1 Studio conventions in street photography
      • 6.2.2 Informational content
      • 6.2.3 Groups
    • 6.3 Seaside photography
      • Activity 26
  • 7 Writing
  • Conclusion
  • Keep on learning
  • References
  • Acknowledgements

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