Amy Lippert on visual culture, images, and the celebrity phenomenon

Amy Lippert is a former assistant professor of urban and social history at the University of Chicago, with a particular focus on visual imagery, visual culture, and mass production. She is the author of Consuming Identities: Visual Culture in Nineteenth Century San Francisco.

In this episode, we cover: the nature, importance, and history of visual images, how visual images have influenced and intersected with society and culture, and why 19th century San Francisco is a unique case study in visual imagery and culture. We also discuss why celebrities exist and how images create and narrate stories around celebrities.

Just a heads-up, we had some issues while this recording this episode which impacted the audio quality towards the end.

About and from Prof. Amy Lippert:

• Website: https://amylippert.com

Assorted links:

• Consuming Identities: https://www.consumingidentities.com
• The Visual Pedagogy of Reform: White Slavery in America: https://journals.sagepub.com/eprint/td2vN5uhdmNw77bbIzKT/full
• Emerging Scholars Lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jALc2EP8jL4
• History of printing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_printing
• WJT Mitchell: https://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/wjtmitchell
• Michael Baxandall, period eye: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Period_eye
• Martin Jay: https://history.berkeley.edu/people/faculty/emeritus/martin-e-jay
• Walter Benjamin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Benjamin
• The Work of Art in the Era of Mechanical Reproduction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Work_of_Art_in_the_Age_of_Mechanical_Reproduction
• Louis Daguerre: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Daguerre
• Daguerreotype: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daguerreotype
• Cartomania: https://www.lincstothepast.com/exhibitions/tennyson/cartomania/
• Eadweard Muybridge: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eadweard_Muybridge
• Representative Men: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representative_Men
• Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keywords:_A_Vocabulary_of_Culture_and_Society

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