Becoming: The Photographs of Clementina, Viscountess Hawarden

Rating:
Summary: Amazing book!
Review: After reading Mavor's previous book, I sat transfixed for something like three days---her wonderful, insightful, and truly beautiful prose always leaves me breathless. This new book is just as good as the last. She leaves you with completely fresh ways of thinking about adolescence, beauty, motherhood, photography, the Victorians and ourselves. She is objective, yet highly intimate and personal at the same time and the result is the most complex and yet accessible academic writing I have ever encountered. Her work and particularly this book have informed my thinking about my own life and my work in ways that no other has before.

Rating:
Summary: Amazing book!
Review: After reading Mavor's previous book, I sat transfixed for something like three days---her wonderful, insightful, and truly beautiful prose always leaves me breathless. This new book is just as good as the last. She leaves you with completely fresh ways of thinking about adolescence, beauty, motherhood, photography, the Victorians and ourselves. She is objective, yet highly intimate and personal at the same time and the result is the most complex and yet accessible academic writing I have ever encountered. Her work and particularly this book have informed my thinking about my own life and my work in ways that no other has before.