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Examines the career of the Gilded Age photographer Napoleon Sarony and his role in the rise of celebrity culture in the United States.



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“Napoleon Sarony’s Living Pictures persuasively links Sarony's work to a set of major conceptual questions in the history of the photography of the last third of the nineteenth century, offering an archivally intensive and contextually rich account of a major—but understudied—photographer of this period.”

—Jordan Bear,Associate Professor of Art History, University of Toronto


“Erin Pauwels brilliantly analyzes the ways that Napoleon Sarony’s late nineteenth-century renown as a celebrity portrait photographer was finely attuned to the emerging medial and consumer cultures of his time. Her wide-ranging interdisciplinary scholarship and extensive original research authoritatively place Sarony within American and global contexts of cultural mobility, nationalism, and technological change.”

—Joanne Lukitsh,Massachusetts College of Art and Design

Napoleon Saronys Living Pictures

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      Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
      Publication Date: 12/12/2023
      ISBN13: 9780271095066, 978-0271095066
      ISBN10: 0271095067
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Examines the career of the Gilded Age photographer Napoleon Sarony and his role in the rise of celebrity culture in the United States.



      Trade Review

      “Napoleon Sarony’s Living Pictures persuasively links Sarony's work to a set of major conceptual questions in the history of the photography of the last third of the nineteenth century, offering an archivally intensive and contextually rich account of a major—but understudied—photographer of this period.”

      —Jordan Bear,Associate Professor of Art History, University of Toronto


      “Erin Pauwels brilliantly analyzes the ways that Napoleon Sarony’s late nineteenth-century renown as a celebrity portrait photographer was finely attuned to the emerging medial and consumer cultures of his time. Her wide-ranging interdisciplinary scholarship and extensive original research authoritatively place Sarony within American and global contexts of cultural mobility, nationalism, and technological change.”

      —Joanne Lukitsh,Massachusetts College of Art and Design

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