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The cased photographic portrait was fashionable from the early 1840s until the end of the 1860s. Around it grew a considerable industry supplying everything from simple leather covered cases, to sophisticated creations in moulded thermoplastic. This book looks at the photographic portrait from daguerrotype to carte de visite, and at the range of cases in which it was marketed. The cased Victorian photographic portrait was a sophisticated product, with the delicate hand-colouring of the image echoed in the colours of the protective velvet pad and trim with which the case was finished. Hitherto, the relationship between the portrait and its packaging and presentation has not been explored in book form. Case Histories also highlights British manufacturers of cases and trims, and identifies the only British manufacturer yet found who made moulded thermoplastic cases. 240 colour & 12 b/w illustrated

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Professor John Hannavy is a well-known writer and broadcaster on the history of photography, with over twenty books to his name, and two series of television films for the BBC. He has been an avid collector of Victorian photographica for thirty years and his first book was published in 1974. Since then he has written and lectured extensively on the subject of early photographic history. He writes regularly on travel photography and the history of photography for a number of magazines and has recently completed a major book comparing the experience of travel and the challenges of travel photography in Victorian times with the present day. In 2000/2001, Professor Hannavy was the Centenary President of the British Institute of Professional Photography and in 2002 he was awarded a Winston Churchill Travelling Fellowship to support his researches into early travel photography in Russia and China. Now an independent researcher, he was formerly Professor in Art & Design at the University of Bolton.

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