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Snapshots of Bloomsbury Maggie Humm

Snapshots of Bloomsbury By Maggie Humm

Snapshots of Bloomsbury by Maggie Humm


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Summary

Features several barely-known photographs, both amateur and professional, that cast light on the private lives of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell, as well as the historical, cultural, and artistic milieux of their circle in Bloomsbury and beyond. This book places domestic photography at the forefront of cultural studies of modernism.

Snapshots of Bloomsbury Summary

Snapshots of Bloomsbury: The Private Lives of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell by Maggie Humm

In this enthralling portrait, Maggie Humm makes available, for the first time, a wealth of barely known photographs, both amateur and professional, that cast new light on the private lives of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell, as well as the historical, cultural, and artistic milieux of their circle in Bloomsbury and beyond. We visit the domestic lives of major nineteenth- and twentieth-century writers and artists, such as E. M. Forster, who is pictured happily pruning trees with Leonard Woolf, T. S. Eliot, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. There are intimate portraits of Vanessa Bell's children and erotic photos of Duncan Grant's lovers. The parade of characters portrayed in the photographs is long and full, including Vita Sackville-West, Roger Fry, David Garnett, Lady Ottoline Morrell, Walter Sickert, Clive Bell, the Stracheys, Dora Carrington, Cyril Connolly, John Maynard Keynes, and many more. The domestic photographs, taken predominantly with the enormously popular vest-pocket Kodak cameras of the time, are complemented by the professional photographs of Man Ray and Gisele Freund. Meticulously researched and painstakingly organized, this unique book brings critical insight to the remarkable photographs preserved in the archives of Tate and the Harvard Theatre collection. In doing so, it places domestic photography at the forefront of cultural studies of modernism, bringing vividly before us the real lives of the individuals at the heart of the Bloomsbury circle.

Snapshots of Bloomsbury Reviews

'Finally, a superb collection of the domestic photographs so central to the family histories and autobiographical art of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell.' Brenda Silver, author of Virginia Woolf Icon 'This rich compendium of images is accompanied by the first comprehensive, theoretically informed, historical overview of Bloomsbury photography. The book will enthral many, with its inclusion of hitherto unpublished images... Maggie Humm is the leading authority on Bloomsbury photography... A real feast of a book.' - Frances Spalding, art historian, critic, and biographer of Roger Fry, Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant

About Maggie Humm

Maggie Humm is a professor of cultural studies at the University of East London and the author of many publications including Modernist Women and Visual Cultures: Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell, Photography and Cinema.

Additional information

GOR002348704
9781854376725
1854376721
Snapshots of Bloomsbury: The Private Lives of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell by Maggie Humm
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Tate Publishing
20060606
240
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