The extraordinary archive of Arthur J. Munby: photographing class and gender in the nineteenth century

Acknowledgements

Introduction: the Munby archive. 1 Academically locating the archive: history and theory of photography - the nineteenth century : Photography's pre-industrial age: 1850-60

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The urban collection. 2 What is a photograph? 3 The city, photography and relations of looking : Munby, photography and the flâneur

Mid-Victorian painting and the imagining of class

Photography and class in the mid-Victorian period. 4 Who was Munby? Useful readings of the Munby archive : Munby: the flâneur and man about town. 5 Munby and the turn to photography: Hannah, the private urban collection and the search for photography truth : Taking "attitudes": the photographic of Hannah Cullwick. 6 Starting to collect: Munby and his turn to commercially produced photographs of working-class women : Ensuring urban authenticity and controlling photographic indexicality

"Photographic hunting and people studying": photography and the new urban working class

Photograph acceptance: replacing the text with the image. 7 Dressing above your station and making it work for him: domestic photographs of the urban working-class woman : Maidservants in working dress

The inherent problem of indexicality, gazing and power

Three photographs: three problems

Accepting photographic veracity and the formation of photographic genres in the 1860s and the 1870s

Photography and the formation and control of class difference. 8 Under the skin: Munby's photographs of facially disfigured women - the real and symbolic : Photography and the abject body

Photography, the real and the inhumanity of power. Appendix: the photographic archive : Album one

Album two

Album three

Album four

Album five

Album six

Album seven

Miscellaneous

The shelves. Notes

BIbliography

Index.