Working Stiffs Occupational Portraits in the Age of Tintypes |
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| Author:
| Carlebach, Michael L. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-58834-067-2 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2002 |
| Publisher: | Smithsonian Books
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $85.00 |
Book Description:
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Working Stiffs explores the historical significance of the tintype, a cheap, fast, easy-to-make, practically indestructible type of photograph that became enormously popular among the working class in the late nineteenth century. This collection exhibits more than eighty examples of a specific kind of tintype: occupational portraits, photographs of working people with the tools of their trade. In a detailed historical examination, Michael L. Carlebach finds that these often-dismissed...
More DescriptionWorking Stiffs explores the historical significance of the tintype, a cheap, fast, easy-to-make, practically indestructible type of photograph that became enormously popular among the working class in the late nineteenth century. This collection exhibits more than eighty examples of a specific kind of tintype: occupational portraits, photographs of working people with the tools of their trade. In a detailed historical examination, Michael L. Carlebach finds that these often-dismissed photographs reveal a great deal about late nineteenth-century values.