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Abstract
On the 150th anniversary of Dickens death, this exhibition at the Charles Dickens Museum, curated by Leon Litvack, explores the enduring power of Dickens’s image. REF Impact testimonial by Frankie Kubucki, Special Projects Curator at the Dickens Museum (Jan 2021): "Dr Litvack was the lead academic working on the technical aspect of the coloured images and his research and advice fed significantly into the final versions of the coloured portraits. We approached Dr Leon Litvack to collaborate on the project due to his reputation as an academic authority on Dickens photographic portraits, and the photographers, and processes that created these images.The project and research contributed by Dr Litvack will have an important legacy on the museum database and wider impact on the collection."
Original language | English |
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Place of Publication | London |
Publisher | Charles Dickens Museum |
Publication status | Published - 04 Jul 2020 |
Keywords
- Dickens, Charles
- Photography
- colourisation
- Celebrity
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Dickens in the Eye of the Beholder: Photographic Portraits and the Cultivation of Celebrity
Leon Litvack (Invited speaker)
03 Mar 2021Activity: Talk or presentation types › Public lecture/debate/seminar
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Charles Dickens Museum (External organisation)
Leon Litvack (Board Member)
2002 → 2021Activity: Membership types › Membership of board
Research output
- 4 Article
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Dickens, Celebrity Culture, and the 'Para-Social Relationship'
Litvack, L., 08 Sept 2020, In: The Dickensian. 116, 2, p. 146-161 16 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Dickens in the Eye of the Beholder: The Photographs of Robert Hindry Mason
Litvack, L., 2017, In: Dickens Studies Annual. 47, p. 165-199 35 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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”.
Litvack, L., 01 Jun 2017, In: Dickens Quarterly. 34, 2, p. 96-158 62 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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