The Bloomsbury photographs / Maggie Humm

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Humm, Maggie, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Strachey, Lytton, 1880-1932.

Strachey, Lytton.

Carrington, Dora de Houghton, 1893-1932.

Carrington, Dora de Houghton.

Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941.

Woolf, Virginia.

Bell, Vanessa, 1879-1961.

Bell, Vanessa.

Bloomsbury group--History.

Bloomsbury group.

Bloomsbury group--Catalogs.

Physical Description:

233 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 28 cm

Place of Publication:

New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2024]

Summary:

"Photography framed the world of the Bloomsbury Group. The thousands of photographs surviving in albums kept by Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell, Dora Carrington, and Lytton Strachey, among others, today offer us a private insight into their lives. Maggie Humm brings together a curated selection of these photographs to offer us a fresh portrait of the Bloomsbury Group, showing them in a new, domestic intimacy. She brings to life the texture of Bloomsbury: their pastimes, children, clothes, houses, servants, pets, holidays. Several photographs are blurred as if taken in a hurried moment of time, and unguarded close-ups reflect complex personal relationships. The Bloomsbury Photographs are not simply documents, but testimonies of relationships, friendships, and the significance of empathetic lives."-- Publisher's website.

Contents:

Preface and acknowledgements

Bloomsbury photographs

Lytton Strachey and Dora Carrington

Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell : the early years

Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell : the light and the air 1904-1929

Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell : the 1930s

Conclusion

Catalogue of the Monk's House Albums

Abbreviations

Notes

Bibliography

Picture credits

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 216-221) and index.

ISBN:

9780300273755

0300273754

OCLC:

1428037192