Family Phantasmagoria: Antoine Claudet, stereographs, and middle-class dummies

Steve Edwards

Family Phantasmagoria: Antoine Claudet, stereographs, and middle-class dummies

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Exploring vision, stereoscopy and phantasmagoria in nineteenth-century Britain, this essay argues that photographer Antoine Claudet used enhanced optical distance to render the middle class substantial. Drawing on history of science, taxidermy and social theories of fetishism, I account for Claudet's spectacularly successful stereo daguerreotypes of middle-class families.

Original language	English
Journal	Oxford Art Journal
Volume	48
Issue number	1
Publication status	Accepted/In press - Oct 22 2023

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