Monsters: Human Freaks in America’s Gilded Age; Paperback 160pgs (2003)
$55.00
Freaks, Photography, Oddities, Rare; Paperback 160 pages (Used)
Devoted to the work of Victorian-era Bowery photographer Charles Eisenmann, this book is a reprinting of an edition published in the 1970’s. This one (put out by ECW Press) contains a number of essays about Eisenmann’s working methods, Victorian photographic conventions, etc., and 87 plates accompanied by biographies of the performers depicted, except in the case of several unknowns.
