Claudia Acott Williams

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The Crown in Focus

Two Centuries of Royal Photography

Beschreibung

The Crown in Focus traces the remarkable relationship between the British Royal Family and photography over the course of nearly 200 years, from Queen Victoria and Prince Albert's enthusiastic adoption of the emerging technology in the mid-19th century to the use of Instagram by the modern monarchy.

Autor

Claudia Acott Williams is a Collections Curator at Historic Royal Palaces, specializing in royal, court and dress history from the 18th century to the present day. She read history at undergraduate level and museum studies at master's level, both at University College London. She began her career at the National Trust and joined Historic Royal Palaces in 2013 to work with the Royal Ceremonial Dress Collection. She is now Curator of Kensington Palace, responsible for the presentation of the palace interiors and the displayed and stored collections. She was Lead Curator of the permanent exhibition Victoria: A Royal Childhood, and also worked on the exhibitions Victoria Revealed, Diana: Her Fashion Story and Fashion Rules: Restyled. She is a contributing lecturer to the online course 'A History of Royal Fashion', and gives regular lectures on the royal palaces, collections, court and dress history at universities and to special-interest groups around the UK.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Merrell Publishers Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 285mm x 241mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 1522g
• ISBN-13: 9781858946863
• ISBN-10: 1858946867
• Artikelnr.: 57370060