The mass production of memory : travel and personal archiving in the age of the Kodak

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"The mass production of memory : travel and personal archiving in the age of the Kodak"
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Tammy S. Gordon
出版者
  • University of Massachusetts Press
出版年月
  • c2020
書籍サイズ
24 cm
シリーズ名/番号
  • : hardcover

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Includes bibliographical references and index

Summary: "In 1888, the Eastman Dry Plate and Film Company offered the first portable camera that allowed users to conveniently take photos, using leisure travel as a primary marketing feature to promote it. The combination of portability, ease of use, and mass advertising fed into a national trend of popular photography that drew on Americans' increasing mobility and leisure time. The Kodak Company and the first generation of tourist photographers established new standards for personal archiving that amplified the individual's role in authoring the national narrative. But not everyone had equal access to travel and tourism, and many members of the African American, Native American, and gay and lesbian communities used the camera to counter the racism, homophobia, and classism that shaped public spaces. In this groundbreaking history, Tammy S. Gordon tells the story of the camera's emerging centrality in leisure travel across the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and its role in "the mass productio

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