Gory and Graphic: Sensational and Disaster Imagery from the Graphic Arts Department

26oct7:00 pm8:00 pmGory and Graphic: Sensational and Disaster Imagery from the Graphic Arts Department

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Featuring Erika Piola, Curator of Graphic Arts and the Director of Visual Culture Program

A Library Company Virtual Collection Review

Tuesday, October 26, 7:00 pm

Railroad disasters, steamship explosions, devastating fires, and violence in the streets were fodder for many a news story read during the 19th century. Before the dawn of modern media as we know it, typically lithographs provided the public with their “first” glimpses of sensational events and tragedies reported by the city’s press. Join Erika Piola, Director of the Visual Culture Program, as she discusses the conception, distribution, and reception of the“fake news” aspect of this often overlooked genre of “gory and graphic” popular imagery in 19th-century American visual culture.

Image: The Terrible Conflagration at Ninth and Washington Streets, Philadelphia. : On the Morning of Wednesday February 8th 1865 (Philadelphia: J. L. Magee, 1865). Hand-colored lithograph.

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(Tuesday) 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm(GMT-04:00)