Travel Marketing and Popular Photography in Britain, 18881939

This book **explores how popular photography influenced the representation of travel in Britain in the period from the Kodak-led emergence of compact cameras in 1888, to 1939.

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Sara Dominici is a Lecturer in Cultural Studies and Course Leader for the MA in Art and Visual Culture at the University of Westminster, London. Her writing focuses on the history and culture of photography, the relationship between photography and the archive, and cultural studies.

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This book **explores how popular photography influenced the representation of travel in Britain in the period from the Kodak-led emergence of compact cameras in 1888, to 1939.

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Contents

List of illustrations

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

1. Introduction: Reading Travel Images

2. Travelling and Photographing: Social Norms and Personal Motivations

3. The Education of Tourist Photographers

4. The Interwar Years: Tourists' Desires and Photographic Competitions

5. Photography, Commercial Art and Branding

6. Conclusion: Towards New Photographic Histories

Index