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The Photographic Experience, 1839Ð1914: Images and Attitudes

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Publisher : Penn State Press

Page : 484 pages

File Size : 48,60 MB

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Category : Art

ISBN : 9780271044491

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The Photographic Experience deals with episodes and issues relating to the spread and practice of photography from its beginnings to World War I. Bridget and Heinz Henisch concern themselves with the reception accorded to the new art by professionals, amateurs, and the general public. They examine reactions to the new invention in the press, literature, poetry, music, and fashion; the response of intellectuals and painters; and the beliefs held by prominent photographers concerning the nature of the medium and its mission. With a wide array of images - many never before published - they illustrate the photograph's use as a record of public and private moments in life.



Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography

Author : John Hannavy

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 1630 pages

File Size : 14,41 MB

Release : 2013-12-16

Category : Photography

ISBN : 1135873267

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The Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography is the first comprehensive encyclopedia of world photography up to the beginning of the twentieth century. It sets out to be the standard, definitive reference work on the subject for years to come. Its coverage is global – an important ‘first’ in that authorities from all over the world have contributed their expertise and scholarship towards making this a truly comprehensive publication. The Encyclopedia presents new and ground-breaking research alongside accounts of the major established figures in the nineteenth century arena. Coverage includes all the key people, processes, equipment, movements, styles, debates and groupings which helped photography develop from being ‘a solution in search of a problem’ when first invented, to the essential communication tool, creative medium, and recorder of everyday life which it had become by the dawn of the twentieth century. The sheer breadth of coverage in the 1200 essays makes the Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography an essential reference source for academics, students, researchers and libraries worldwide.



The Gender of Photography

Author : Nicole Hudgins

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 312 pages

File Size : 49,38 MB

Release : 2020-09-02

Category : Art

ISBN : 1000211509

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It would be unthinkable now to omit early female pioneers from any survey of photography's history in the Western world. Yet for many years the gendered language of American, British and French photographic literature made it appear that women's interactions with early photography did not count as significant contributions. Using French and English photo journals, cartoons, art criticism, novels, and early career guides aimed at women, this volume will show why and how early photographic clubs, journals, exhibitions, and studios insisted on masculine values and authority, and how Victorian women engaged with photography despite that dominant trend. Focusing on the period before 1890, when women were yet to develop the self-assurance that would lead to broader recognition of the value of their work, this study probes the mechanisms by which exclusion took place and explores how women practiced photography anyway, both as amateurs and professionals. Challenging the marginalization of women’s work in the early history of photography, this is essential reading for students and scholars of photography, history and gender studies.





Pictures and Progress

Author : Maurice O. Wallace

Publisher : Duke University Press

Page : 398 pages

File Size : 45,28 MB

Release : 2012-06-19

Category : Art

ISBN : 0822350858

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Pictures and Progress explores how, during the nineteenth century and the early twentieth, prominent African American intellectuals and activists understood photography's power to shape perceptions about race and employed the new medium in their quest for social and political justice. They sought both to counter widely circulating racist imagery and to use self-representation as a means of empowerment. In this collection of essays, scholars from various disciplines consider figures including Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Ida B. Wells, Paul Laurence Dunbar, and W. E. B. Du Bois as important and innovative theorists and practitioners of photography. In addition, brief interpretive essays, or "snapshots," highlight and analyze the work of four early African American photographers. Featuring more than seventy images, Pictures and Progress brings to light the wide-ranging practices of early African American photography, as well as the effects of photography on racialized thinking. Contributors. Michael A. Chaney, Cheryl Finley, P. Gabrielle Foreman, Ginger Hill, Leigh Raiford, Augusta Rohrbach, Ray Sapirstein, Suzanne N. Schneider, Shawn Michelle Smith, Laura Wexler, Maurice O. Wallace



The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art

Author : Joan M. Marter

Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA

Page : 3140 pages

File Size : 33,47 MB

Release : 2011

Category : Architecture

ISBN : 0195335791

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Arranged in alphabetical order, these 5 volumes encompass the history of the cultural development of America with over 2300 entries.



Through the Skylight

Author : Ian Baucom

Publisher : Simon and Schuster

Page : 400 pages

File Size : 33,17 MB

Release : 2014-02-18

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 1442481676

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Living temporarily in Venice, three American siblings uncover a mystery surrounding magical objects, an Arabian Nights book, and animals that can walk in and out of paintings.



Looking for America

Author : Ardis Cameron

Publisher : John Wiley & Sons

Page : 408 pages

File Size : 16,61 MB

Release : 2008-04-15

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 140513772X

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Looking for America: The Visual Production of Nation andPeople is a groundbreaking collection that explores the“visual” in defining the kaleidoscope of Americanexperience and American identity in the 20th century. Covers enduringly important topics in American history:nationhood, class, politics of identity, and the visual mapping of“others” Includes editorial introductions, suggested readings, a primeron how to "read" an image, and a guide to visual archives andcollections Well-illustrated book for those in American Studies and relatedfields eager to incorporate the visual into theirteaching—and telling—of the American story.



The Expanding Eye

Author : Alan Thomas

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 335 pages

File Size : 41,96 MB

Release : 2018-11-01

Category : History

ISBN : 0429767781

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First published in 1978. In this title, Alan Thomas examines the invention of photography in the early nineteenth century. How the members of this first "visual" generation used photography and how it changed their perceptions of the world are the subjects of this lavishly illustrated book. As the author convincingly shows, the camera’s presence was felt nearly everywhere during the course of the nineteenth century. Approaching the subject topically, Thomas surveys the work of the early photographers in terms of its motivation, insights, and impact on society. The book is rounded out with sections on other genres of photography – theatrical, landscape, and social realism – that amply document the far-reaching impact of this phenomenon on nineteenth-century sensibilities.