Article Archive for April 2010
The much anticipated DVD will excite those fascinated with the Victorian era and Victorian costume with added special features including featurettes of Victoria’s wedding and coronation, plus a special look at the costumes and palace locations.
Human heads on animal bodies, people in fanciful landscapes, faces that are deftly morphed into common household objects—these are among the Victorian experiments in photocollage seen and explained in this marvelous book. It provides a history of Victorian photocollage albums, identifies the common motifs found in them, and demonstrates the distinctly modern character of the medium.
Photocollages served as a form of parlor entertainment in the Victorian era. In the 1860s and 1870s, long before the embrace of collage techniques by avant-garde artists of the early 20th century, aristocratic Victorian women were experimenting with photocollage.
Vintage clothing from 1921 is featured in this video. These vintage designer dresses were illustrated in Gazette du Bon Ton, a leading French fashion magazine.












