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Pleasures Taken: Performances of Sexuality and Loss in Victorian Photographs


Pleasures Taken: Performances of Sexuality and Loss in Victorian Photographs

Paperback by Mavor, Carol

Pleasures Taken: Performances of Sexuality and Loss in Victorian Photographs

£23.99

ISBN:
9781860641169
Publication Date:
31 Dec 1996
Language:
English
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:
I.B. Tauris
Pages:
204 pages
Format:
Paperback
For delivery:
Estimated despatch 27 May - 1 Jun 2024
Pleasures Taken: Performances of Sexuality and Loss in Victorian Photographs

Description

Lewis Carroll's photographs of young girls, Julia Margaret Cameron's photographs of Madonnas and the photographs of Hannah Cullwick, "maid of all work", pictured in masquerade - Carol Mavor addresses the erotic possibilities of these images, exploring not ony the sexualities of the girls, maids and Madonnas, but the pleasures taken - by the viewer, the photographer, the model - in imagining these sexualities.

Contents

Dream rushes - Lewis Carroll's photographs of little girls; to make Mary - Julia Margaret Cameron's photographs of altered Madonnas; touching netherplaces - invisibility in the photographs of Hannah Cullwick; conclusion - after-time.

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