The Beautiful and the Damned - The Creation of Identity in Nineteenth Century Photography

Lund Humphries, Hampshire, 2001, 122 pages. Good secondhand condition.

Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at the National Portrait Gallery, 6 June - 7 October, 2001. Includes bibliographical references (p. 116-117) and index.

Between 1860 and 1900 celebrity portraits, together with the vogue for the cartes de visite, fuelled the fashion for collecting and classifying photographs of the face. These photographs and collections sought to celebrate eminence, intellect, beauty and individualism.