Consuming identities
Subtitle: visual culture in nineteenth-century San Francisco
By: Amy K. DeFalco Lippert
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780190268978
Subjects: Social life and customs; Photography; History
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: These lofty aspirants of fame : the making of the gold rush legend; title: Ten times better than a letter : gold rush photography; title: Base falsehoods and the genuine article : the visual economy of San Francisco; title: From the cradle to the grave : visualizing the life cycle; title: Visual desire : love, lust, and virtual reality; title: Awful magnificence : Infamy, mortality, and armchair spectacles; title: Celebrity culture and the gold rush metropolis.