The mass production of memory : travel and personal archiving in the age of the Kodak / Tammy S. Gordon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gordon, Tammy S., 1967- author.

Series:

Public history in historical perspective

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Eastman Kodak Company.

Travel photography--United States--History--20th century.

Travel photography.

Vernacular photography--United States--History--20th century.

Vernacular photography.

Eastman Kodak Company--History--20th century.

Tourism--United States--History--20th century.

Tourism.

Photography--Social aspects--United States--History--20th century.

Photography.

Photography--Social aspects.

History.

United States.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xv, 159 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2020]

Summary:

"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.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: ch. One "One did not `take' a camera" The Roots of Tourist Photography

ch. Two "The World is mine-I own a KODAK" Marketing Memory and Privilege

ch. Three "Side Trips in Camera-Land" Tourism and the Visual Record

ch. Four "When I Send You a Picture of Berlin" The Memory Emergency of the First World War

ch. Five "A visible token" Expanding the Promise of the Kodak in the Interwar Years.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781625345325

1625345321

9781625345318

1625345313

OCLC:

1154570112