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Double click : twin photographers in the golden age of magazines / Carol Kino.
Van Pelt Library TR140.M395 K56 2024
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kino, Carol, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gill, Frances McLaughlin.
- Abbe, Kathryn McLaughlin.
- Photographers--United States--Biography.
- Photographers.
- Women photographers--United States--Biography.
- Women photographers.
- Twins--Biography.
- Twins.
- Periodicals--Biography.
- Periodicals.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 405 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : photographs (some color) ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First Scribner hardcover edition.
- Other Title:
- Twin photographers in the golden age of magazines
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Scribner, 2024.
- Summary:
- The McLaughlin twins were trailblazing female photographers, celebrated in their time as stars in their respective fields, but have largely been forgotten since. Here, in Double Click, author Carol Kino provides us with a fascinating window into the golden era of magazine photography and the first young women's publications, bringing these two brilliant women and their remarkable accomplishments to vivid life.
- Contents:
- Reader advisory
- Prologue: Twins on twins
- Part I The decisive moment. World of tomorrow ; Kodak childhood
- Part II College days. An experimental education ; The discovery of photography ; "College bazaar" ; Prix de Paris
- Part III The world of work. Making the right call ; Fuffy's lucky break ; The women's war ; Civil service
- Part IV New horizons. Jimmy ; Living the photographer's life ; Love in wartime ; Leslie ; Franny's lucky break
- Part V The separation. The inner sanctum ; Franny new world ; Woman power ; Fuffy's new world ; Victory
- Part VI America rising. The American look ; The elopement ; European tour
- Part VII Lovers and tyrants. Our little Frances ; Cautionary tales ; The big change ; Twin lives
- Epilogue: Love and luck.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-381) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781982113049
- 1982113049
- OCLC:
- 1384413033
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