Author: Raisa Adah Rexer
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812297857
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Between 1839 and the end of the nineteenth century, millions of nude photographs of the female form—artistic, pornographic, and everything in-between—were produced in France, the birthplace of photography. Drawing upon government records, legal decisions, newspaper accounts, and contemporary literature, Raisa Rexer recounts the history of these illicit and ubiquitous images and elucidates their immense cultural and artistic reach. Rexer focuses in particular on the ways that nude photographic imagery influenced some of the greatest authors of the period, including Charles Baudelaire, the Goncourt brothers, and Émile Zola, and sets their work against historical records and nonfiction print sources to tell the story of evolving perceptions of nude photography. In the period immediately after photography's invention, nude photographs were vitally connected to the questions of art and artistry, particularly with regard to photography's aspirations to high cultural status. By the end of the century, however, as production and sales expanded internationally and as photographs of nudes flooded the streets and shops, proliferation of these pictures was increasingly viewed as one of a host of social problems plaguing France. Illustrated with nearly ninety period images, The Fallen Veil offers the first full treatment of the photographic nude in the nineteenth century and considers how this history continues to influence many of the same questions we ask today about art, pornography, and the relation between the two.
The Fallen Veil
Author: Raisa Adah Rexer
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812297857
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Between 1839 and the end of the nineteenth century, millions of nude photographs of the female form—artistic, pornographic, and everything in-between—were produced in France, the birthplace of photography. Drawing upon government records, legal decisions, newspaper accounts, and contemporary literature, Raisa Rexer recounts the history of these illicit and ubiquitous images and elucidates their immense cultural and artistic reach. Rexer focuses in particular on the ways that nude photographic imagery influenced some of the greatest authors of the period, including Charles Baudelaire, the Goncourt brothers, and Émile Zola, and sets their work against historical records and nonfiction print sources to tell the story of evolving perceptions of nude photography. In the period immediately after photography's invention, nude photographs were vitally connected to the questions of art and artistry, particularly with regard to photography's aspirations to high cultural status. By the end of the century, however, as production and sales expanded internationally and as photographs of nudes flooded the streets and shops, proliferation of these pictures was increasingly viewed as one of a host of social problems plaguing France. Illustrated with nearly ninety period images, The Fallen Veil offers the first full treatment of the photographic nude in the nineteenth century and considers how this history continues to influence many of the same questions we ask today about art, pornography, and the relation between the two.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812297857
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Between 1839 and the end of the nineteenth century, millions of nude photographs of the female form—artistic, pornographic, and everything in-between—were produced in France, the birthplace of photography. Drawing upon government records, legal decisions, newspaper accounts, and contemporary literature, Raisa Rexer recounts the history of these illicit and ubiquitous images and elucidates their immense cultural and artistic reach. Rexer focuses in particular on the ways that nude photographic imagery influenced some of the greatest authors of the period, including Charles Baudelaire, the Goncourt brothers, and Émile Zola, and sets their work against historical records and nonfiction print sources to tell the story of evolving perceptions of nude photography. In the period immediately after photography's invention, nude photographs were vitally connected to the questions of art and artistry, particularly with regard to photography's aspirations to high cultural status. By the end of the century, however, as production and sales expanded internationally and as photographs of nudes flooded the streets and shops, proliferation of these pictures was increasingly viewed as one of a host of social problems plaguing France. Illustrated with nearly ninety period images, The Fallen Veil offers the first full treatment of the photographic nude in the nineteenth century and considers how this history continues to influence many of the same questions we ask today about art, pornography, and the relation between the two.
The Manuscript Inventories and the Catalogs of Manuscripts, Books, and Periodicals: Book catalog, Pio-State L
Author: Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America
Publisher:
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Category : Cookery
Languages : en
Pages : 840
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Cookery
Languages : en
Pages : 840
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The Manuscript Inventories and the Catalogs of Manuscripts, Books, and Periodicals: Book catalog, A-Chal
Author: Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 824
Book Description
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 824
Book Description
History of Women, Guide to the Microfilm Collection
Author: Research Publications, inc
Publisher: Primary Source Microfilm
ISBN: 9780892350407
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Pre-1920 literature about the roles of women. Includes pamphlets, periodicals, manuscripts, and photographs.
Publisher: Primary Source Microfilm
ISBN: 9780892350407
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Pre-1920 literature about the roles of women. Includes pamphlets, periodicals, manuscripts, and photographs.
Proposition de loi sur la prostitution et l'outrage aux bonnes moeurs
Author: René Bérenger
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Languages : fr
Pages : 30
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Languages : fr
Pages : 30
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Proposition de loi sur la prositution et les outrages aux bonnes moeurs
Author: Bérenger (M.)
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Category : Prostitution
Languages : fr
Pages : 30
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Category : Prostitution
Languages : fr
Pages : 30
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Proposition de loi sur la prostitution et les outrages aux bonnes mœurs
Author: René Bérenger
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Category : Prostitution
Languages : fr
Pages : 30
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Category : Prostitution
Languages : fr
Pages : 30
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Rapport fait au nom de la commission chargée d'examiner le projet de loi portant modification des articles 414, 415 et 416 du code pénal (Coalitions)
Author: Émile Ollivier
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Languages : fr
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Rapport fait au nom de la commission chargée d'examiner le projet du loi
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Languages : fr
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Rapport fait au nom de la commission de législation criminelle chargée d'examiner la proposition de loi de M. Louis Barthou, ayant pour objet de modifier l'article 3 de la loi du 8 décembre 1897 sur l'instruction judiciaire... par M. Meyer,... (12 novembre 1901).
Author: Henri Meyer
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Languages : fr
Pages : 2
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Publisher:
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Languages : fr
Pages : 2
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