The Bloomsbury photographs

Abstract

"Photography framed the world of the Bloomsbury Group. The thousands of photographs surviving in albums kept by Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell, Dora Carrington, and Lytton Strachey, among others, today offer us a private insight into their lives. Maggie Humm brings together a curated selection of these photographs to offer us a fresh portrait of the Bloomsbury Group, showing them in a new, domestic intimacy. She brings to life the texture of Bloomsbury: their pastimes, children, clothes, houses, servants, pets, holidays. Several photographs are blurred as if taken in a hurried moment of time, and unguarded close-ups reflect complex personal relationships. The Bloomsbury Photographs are not simply documents, but testimonies of relationships, friendships, and the significance of empathetic lives."-- Publisher's website.

Contents

Preface and acknowledgements -- Bloomsbury photographs -- Lytton Strachey and Dora Carrington -- Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell : the early years -- Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell : the light and the air 1904-1929 -- Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell : the 1930s -- Conclusion -- Catalogue of the Monk's House Albums -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Picture credits -- Index.