| Series |
Public history in historical perspective
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| Contents |
"The story is complete for all time" : mass photography for the future of history -- "One did not 'take' a camera" : the roots of tourist photography -- "The world is mine--I own a KODAK" : marketing memory and privilege -- "Side trips in Camera Land" : tourism and the visual record -- "When I send you a picture of Berlin" : the memory emergency of the First World War -- "A visible token" : expanding the promise of the Kodak in the Interwar years -- The legacy of the first generation of mass tourism and portable photography. |
| Abstract |
"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 production of memory," a process in which users crafted a visual archive attesting to their experiences, values, and circumstances, setting the stage for the customizable visual culture of the digital age"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2020019222 |
| ISBN | 9781625345318 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 9781625345325 (paperback) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
