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  title info:
    title: Unequivocal magic
    sub title: Sarah Bernhardt and the journey of a portrait
  title info:
    title: Sarah Bernhardt and the journey of a portrait
  name:
    name part: Bertram, Alexandra
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: onc
    date issued: 2026
    copyright date: 2026
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xvi, 192 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: "Unequivocal Magic speaks to the "quiet power" of photographs and their hidden creativity, bringing readers into the author's own journey into the history of a 1910 portrait of iconic French actress, Sarah Bernhardt. What begins as a quest to recognize the work of her once renowned photographer, Walter Barnett, becomes a story about the female performer in the West, whose use of image to innovate, protest, and survive public scrutiny can provide an enduring agency. Alex Bertram has always found old photographs intriguing, an interest augmented by her work as a picture researcher for a publisher. On a visit to the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, she saw a 1910 portrait of Sarah Bernhardt, the famous French actress whose career by then had spanned half a century. Beset with questions about this unidealized representation of the actress in her older age, she wondered what the photograph could tell us about Bernhardt, its photographer, or the circumstances surrounding the making of the portrait. Structured around the day Bernhardt had her picture taken in that London studio, Unequivocal Magic traces the travel of the portrait on its life journey, with Bertram returning again and again to this single day in 1910. Bertram's narrative likewise embraces her own creative response upon seeing the portrait for the first time, enveloping that moment into her engagement with and close examination of the lives and work of both Barnett and Bernhardt."--
  note: Alex Bertram.
  note: Issued also in electronic formats.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-fr---
    geographic code: u-at---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Barnett, Walter
      name part: 1862-1934
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Bernhardt, Sarah
      name part: 1844-1923
    topic: Portraits
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Barnett, Walter
      name part: 1862-1934
    topic: Criticism and interpretation
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Barnett, Walter
      name part: 1862-1934
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Bernhardt, Sarah
      name part: 1844-1923
    topic: Portraits
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Barnett, Walter
      name part: 1862-1934
    topic: Critique et interprétation
  subject:
    topic: Portrait photography
  subject:
    topic: Actors
    geographic: France
    topic: Portraits
  subject:
    topic: Actors
    geographic: France
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Portrait photographers
    geographic: Australia
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Portraits (Photographie)
  subject:
    topic: Acteurs
    geographic: France
    topic: Portraits
  subject:
    topic: Acteurs
    geographic: France
    genre: Biographies
  subject:
    topic: Photographes portraitistes
    geographic: Australie
    genre: Biographies
  subject:
    topic: PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism
  classification: 779.092
  classification: cci1icc
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Unequivocal magic
    name:
      name part: Bertram, Alexandra.
    origin info:
      publisher: Waterloo, Ontario : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2026
    identifier: (OCoLC)1547586722
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Life writing series
  identifier: 9781771127189
  identifier: 177112718X
  location:
    physical location: POD
  record info:
    record content source: NLC
    record creation date: 250709
    record change date: 20260612211534.8
    record identifier: in00005784702
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng