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Consuming identities : visual culture in nineteenth-century San Francisco
- Author
- Lippert, Amy K. DeFalco, author.
- Title
- Consuming identities : visual culture in nineteenth-century San Francisco / Amy K. DeFalco Lippert.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- New York : Oxford University Press, [2018]
- Description
- xv, 400 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references and index. Library copy inscribed by author.
- Contents
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- 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.
- Summary
- "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"-- Provided by publisher.
- Subject headings
- Photography--California--San Francisco--History--19th century.
- Kinsey subjects
- Photography. Art history.
- Subject headings
- San Francisco (Calif.)--History--19th century. San Francisco (Calif.)--Social life and customs--19th century.
- ISBN
- 9780190268978 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0190268972 9780190268985 (UPDF) 9780190268992 (epub)