The Origins of American Photography
Author | : Keith F. Davis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Daguerreotype |
ISBN | : 9780300122862 |
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Author | : Keith F. Davis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Daguerreotype |
ISBN | : 9780300122862 |
Author | : Jonathan Green |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 247 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Photography |
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Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 496 |
Release | : 1907 |
Genre | : Photography |
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Author | : Keith F. Davis |
Publisher | : Other Distribution |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Photography |
ISBN | : 9780300122862 |
In this text, Keith F. Davis examines photography's social history and aesthetic development in an era of rapid national growth. He demonstrates how key themes and genres - including the business of daguerreian portraiture, the markets for Civil War images, and the art of Western landscape photography - reflected the concerns and values of nineteenth-century society. Photographers of this era expressed a new national consciousness while, at the same time, helping to shape it. They also explored the visual language of a radically new medium, laying the foundation for all of photography's subsequent history.
Author | : Keith F. Davis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Daguerreotype |
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Author | : Peter Galassi |
Publisher | : Harry N Abrams Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Photography |
ISBN | : 9780810961432 |
Author | : Miles Orvell |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780192842718 |
"This comprehensive new survey places American photography in its cultural context for the first time. Prize-winning author, Miles Orvell, examines this fascinating subject through portraiture and landscape photography, family albums and memory, analyzing the particular way in which American photographers view the world around them - from Alfred Stieglitz to Walker Evans, Andy Warhol to Cindy Sherman."--Back cover.
Author | : Alan Trachtenberg |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 1990-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780374522490 |
Considers five documentary sequences or narratives: the antebellum portraits of Mathew Brady and others; the Civil War albums of Alexander Gardner, George Barnard and A.J. Russell; the Western survey and landscape photographs of Timothy O'Sullivan, A.J. Russell, and Carleton Watkins; and social photographs and texts by Alfred Stieglitz and Lewis Hine; as well as documentaries inspired by the Depression, esp. Walker Evans's American Photographs.
Author | : Vicki Goldberg |
Publisher | : Chronicle Books |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Photography |
ISBN | : 0811826228 |
This beautiful and informative photographic history includes images from 1900 to 1999. Many are often seen (bullet piercing the apple, splashing crown of milk, Sophia Loren looking askance at Jayne Mansfield's plunging decollete, and Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother); but most are probably unknown, because the photos were selected not only for their visual and cognitive qualities but also for their importance to the history and development of photographic technique and usage. The century is divided into thirds for explanation's sake, and there is at least one photograph for every year. While this is a picture book, the accompanying text provides informative introductions to the uses and abuses of perhaps the century's most important medium. The book is companion to the PBS series. Oversize: 12.5x9.5". Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR
Author | : Dr. Anna Pegler-Gordon |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2023-04-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520944631 |
When restrictive immigration laws were introduced in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, they involved new requirements for photographing and documenting immigrants--regulations for visually inspecting race and health. This work is the first to take a comprehensive look at the history of immigration policy in the United States through the prism of visual culture. Including many previously unpublished images, and taking a new look at Lewis Hine's photographs, Anna Pegler-Gordon considers the role and uses of visual documentation at Angel Island for Chinese immigrants, at Ellis Island for European immigrants, and on the U.S.-Mexico border. Including fascinating close visual analysis and detailed histories of immigrants in addition to the perspectives of officials, this richly illustrated book traces how visual regulations became central in the early development of U.S. immigration policy and in the introduction of racial immigration restrictions. In so doing, it provides the historical context for understanding more recent developments in immigration policy and, at the same time, sheds new light on the cultural history of American photography.