Our lavishly illustrated and beautifully designed insight into Victorian society, Cartomania: Photography and Celebrity in the Nineteenth Century by Paul Frecker, was recently reviewed by The Spectator.
Robert Douglas-Fairhurst said:
‘As Paul Frecker explains in this eye-opening and frequently jaw-dropping history of the phenomenon, it was “a perfect storm of merchandising, consumerism and social display”, and reading his account of its rise and fall, accompanied by hundreds of images from Frecker’s own collection, opens up a set of fascinating peepholes onto a now vanished world.’
Read the full review here.
