The Fallen Veil: A Literary and Cultural History of the Photographic Nude in Nineteenth-Century France by Rexer, Raisa Adah
The Fallen Veil: A Literary and Cultural History of the Photographic Nude in Nineteenth-Century France by Rexer, Raisa Adah

The Fallen Veil: A Literary and Cultural History of the Photographic Nude in Nineteenth-Century France

Between 1839 and the end of the nineteenth century, millions of nude photographs of the female form--artistic,...
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Author: Raisa Adah Rexer
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The Fallen Veil: A Literary and Cultural History of the Photographic Nude in Nineteenth-Century France by Rexer, Raisa Adah

The Fallen Veil: A Literary and Cultural History of the Photographic Nude in Nineteenth-Century France

CHF 116.77
The Fallen Veil: A Literary and Cultural History of the Photographic Nude in Nineteenth-Century France by Rexer, Raisa Adah

The Fallen Veil: A Literary and Cultural History of the Photographic Nude in Nineteenth-Century France

CHF 116.77
Author: Raisa Adah Rexer
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Between 1839 and the end of the nineteenth century, millions of nude photographs of the female form--artistic, pornographic, and everything in-between--were produced in France, the birthplace of photography. Drawing upon government records, legal decisions, newspaper accounts, and contemporary literature, Raisa Rexer recounts the history of these illicit and ubiquitous images and elucidates their immense cultural and artistic reach.

Rexer focuses in particular on the ways that nude photographic imagery influenced some of the greatest authors of the period, including Charles Baudelaire, the Goncourt brothers, and Émile Zola, and sets their work against historical records and nonfiction print sources to tell the story of evolving perceptions of nude photography. In the period immediately after photography's invention, nude photographs were vitally connected to the questions of art and artistry, particularly with regard to photography's aspirations to high cultural status. By the end of the century, however, as production and sales expanded internationally and as photographs of nudes flooded the streets and shops, proliferation of these pictures was increasingly viewed as one of a host of social problems plaguing France.

Illustrated with nearly ninety period images, The Fallen Veil offers the first full treatment of the photographic nude in the nineteenth century and considers how this history continues to influence many of the same questions we ask today about art, pornography, and the relation between the two.

Author: Raisa Adah Rexer
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 03/12/2021
Pages: 328
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.80lbs
Size: 10.10h x 7.30w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780812252866


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About the Author
Raisa Adah Rexer is Assistant Professor of French at Vanderbilt University.
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