The beautiful and the damned
by Peter Hamilton · 2001
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This text looks at the broad social and cultural context for the development of portrait photography in the 19th century, showing how social and celebrity portraiture on the one hand, and scientific photography on the other, were different facets of the era's fascination with classification.
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