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Dec 12, 2009, 8:46:06 AM12/12/09
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"Playing With Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage" by
Elizabeth Siegel (Amazon.com: http://xrl.us/PhotoC )
Photocollage was invented not long after photography. Aristocratic
women in Victorian England were notably keen on cutting up photographs
of humdrum realism and mixing and matching them to create whimsical
fantasies - e.g., photos of children nestled in the blooms of painted
flowers or a drawing of a juggler tossing balls decorated with
portrait photographs of sober, bearded Englishmen. Ms. Siegel's expert
commentary on her selection from family albums of the 1860s and 1870s
leads us on a twisty ride down the rabbit hole.
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