Ten Dollar Faces: On Photographic Portraiture and Paper Money in the 1860s

IF 0.3 2区 艺术学 0 ART
Matthias Gründig
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Paper photography and paper money share a common history, especially in the context of the USA in the 1860s, a commonality explored by this article. The interconnection of the two media was first addressed by Oliver Wendell Holmes’s metaphorical description of cartes de visite as ‘sentimental “green-backs” of civilization’. This article focuses on Abraham Lincoln’s public image as presidential candidate, one that was heavily influenced by the new craze for cartes de visite. At the same time, the advent of modern paper money as we know it is marked by the introduction of Demand Notes or so-called greenbacks, of which the ten-dollar denomination showed Lincoln’s portrait after a photograph. Medial intersections between paper money and photography are taken into consideration in more theoretical terms, before a concluding section sets out the wider context of photography’s involvement in the emergence and early turbulences of early national paper currencies in the Civil War era.
十美元的面孔:论19世纪60年代的摄影肖像和纸币
纸摄影和纸币有着共同的历史,尤其是在19世纪60年代的美国,这是本文探讨的共同点。奥利弗·温德尔·霍姆斯(Oliver Wendell Holmes)首先将这两种媒体的相互联系比喻为“感性的”文明的“绿钱”。这篇文章关注的是亚伯拉罕·林肯作为总统候选人的公众形象,他的公众形象在很大程度上受到了“访问卡片”新热潮的影响。与此同时,我们所知道的现代纸币的出现标志着即期钞票或所谓的绿背钞票的引入,在10美元面额的钞票上,林肯的肖像是在一张照片之后出现的。在最后一节阐述摄影在内战时期早期国家纸币的出现和早期动荡中所涉及的更广泛的背景之前,从理论上考虑了纸币和摄影之间的媒介交叉点。
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期刊介绍: History of Photography is an international quarterly devoted to the history, practice and theory of photography. It intends to address all aspects of the medium, treating the processes, circulation, functions, and reception of photography in all its aspects, including documentary, popular and polemical work as well as fine art photography. The goal of the journal is to be inclusive and interdisciplinary in nature, welcoming all scholarly approaches, whether archival, historical, art historical, anthropological, sociological or theoretical. It is intended also to embrace world photography, ranging from Europe and the Americas to the Far East.
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