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The Face You Put On

Tom Crewe: Victorian Snapshots, 17 April 2025

Cartomania: Photography and Celebrity in the 19th Century 
by Paul Frecker.
September, 474 pp., £40, June 2024, 978 1 914613 62 3
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... for this omnipresent phenomenon, one that produced decisive social and cultural change. Paul Frecker provides abundant proof of the ‘Cartomania’ that seized Britain in the 1860s, although, as he admits in a winning footnote, there is no evidence that this term was ever used by anybody Victorian.Cartes were the products of multi-lensed ...

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