Dickens Society Annual Symposium 2010

Litvack, L. (Invited speaker)

Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference

Description

Leon Litvack delivered lecture on 'Posing for Posterity: Photographs of Dickens by the Watkins Brothers'.

Period	03 Jun 2010 → 05 Jun 2010
Event type	Conference
Location	Aix-en-Provence, FranceShow on map
Degree of Recognition	International

Keywords

Dickens, Charles
Watkins, Herbert
Photography

Related content

Research output
Dickens Posing for Posterity: The Photographs of Herbert Watkins: Review in Dickens Studies Annual 50 (2019), p. 139: "Leon Litvack’s essay addresses the role played by photography in the establishment of Dickens’s authorial persona. In this exhaustively researched study of Herbert Watkins’s photographs of Dickens, Litvack demonstrates Dickens’s engagement with photography and the extent to which the technology facilitated “the ownership and consumption of ‘authentic’ Dickens images by a multitude of readers and admirers,” thus “enhancing his reputation” (100). Litvack details photographic studio practices, and notes that Dickens “recognized the value of photography in developing” the authorial persona—and observes that “studies of Dickens and photography are still rather few”.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review