BIBFRAME Work

Title

The mass production of memory

Type

• Monograph
• Text

Contribution

• Gordon, Tammy S., 1967- (aut)

Subject

• Vernacular photography--United States--History--20th century (LCSH)
• Photography--Social aspects--United States--History--20th century (LCSH)
• Travel photography--United States--History--20th century (LCSH)
• Eastman Kodak Company--History--20th century. (LCSH)
• Tourism--United States--History--20th century (LCSH)

Language

• eng

Illustrative Content

• illustrations

Classification

• DDC: 771 (Assigner: dlc)
• LCC: TR790 (Assigner: dlc) (Status: used by assigner)

Content

• text

Supplementary content

• index
• bibliography

Summary

"In 1888, the Eastman Dry Plate and Film Company offered the first portable camera that allowed users to conveniently take photos, using leisure travel as a primary marketing feature to promote it. The combination of portability, ease of use, and mass advertising fed into a national trend of popular photography that drew on Americans' increasing mobility and leisure time. The Kodak Company and the first generation of tourist photographers established new standards for personal archiving that amplified the individual's role in authoring the national narrative. But not everyone had equal access to travel and tourism, and many members of the African American, Native American, and gay and lesbian communities used the camera to counter the racism, homophobia, and classism that shaped public spaces. In this groundbreaking history, Tammy S. Gordon tells the story of the camera's emerging centrality in leisure travel across the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and its role in "the mass production of memory," a process in which users crafted a visual archive attesting to their experiences, values, and circumstances, setting the stage for the customizable visual culture of the digital age"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

"The story is complete for all time" : mass photography for the future of history -- "One did not 'take' a camera" : the roots of tourist photography -- "The world is mine--I own a KODAK" : marketing memory and privilege -- "Side trips in Camera Land" : tourism and the visual record -- "When I send you a picture of Berlin" : the memory emergency of the First World War -- "A visible token" : expanding the promise of the Kodak in the Interwar years -- The legacy of the first generation of mass tourism and portable photography.

Authorized Access Point

Gordon, Tammy S., 1967-. The mass production of memory

Geographic Coverage

• United States

Admin Metadata

• Date: 2026-09-30T17:49:51.066282+00:00
• Agent: cbc
• Status: c
• Derived from: 23975134

Admin Metadata

• Date: 2026-09-30
• Cataloger id: Unknown
• Description level: http://id.loc.gov/ontologies/bibframe-2-6-0/
• Description language: eng
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