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Folk Photography
Author | : Luc Sante |
Publisher | : Verse Chorus Press |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | : 1891241559 |
A penetrating analysis of the real-photo postcard phenomenon of the early 1900s. These cards depict the now vanished world of small-town America, but also represent a pivotal stage in the evolution of photography. Their head-on style inherits something of the plain aesthetic of the Civil War photographers, while anticipating the great 1930s documentary artists such as Walker Evans. Fusing his skills as a chronicler of early 20th-century America, a historian of photography and a keen critic, Sante shows how these postcards offer a revealing 'self-portrait of the American nation'.
Route 66 American Icon
Author | : Shannon Richardson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2011-03-31 |
Genre | : Photography, Artistic |
ISBN | : 9780615465562 |
Route 66 is the quintessential american road trip. The highway's iconic architecture, motels, diners and quirky attractions are captured in this book of black & white photographs.Taken over the past several years they document Route 66 as it was and as it is today.
Snapshot Chronicles
Author | : Barbara Levine |
Publisher | : Princeton Architectural Press |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2006-01-19 |
Genre | : Photography |
ISBN | : 1568985576 |
'Snapshot Chronicles' is a visual exploration of the creative outpouring made possible by the camera.
After the Photo-secession
Author | : Christian A. Peterson |
Publisher | : W W Norton & Company Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Photography |
ISBN | : 9780393041118 |
The beautiful and seductive images of an overlooked movement, reproduced in their full tonal range. Much has been written about Alfred Stieglitz and his role in establishing photography as an art. Little attention, however, has been paid to the pictorial photographers who followed Stieglitz, among them Imo Jean Cunningham, Edward Weston, Clarence H. White, and a host of others -- those who, in a widespread movement, approached photography in a painterly fashion, creating beautiful images through the use of careful lighting, manipulated tones, soft focus effects, and artistic compositions. In this important volume, Christian A. Peterson finally gives the pictorialists of the first half of the twentieth century their due. He describes the backgrounds of the movement, their methods, the photo clubs they belonged to, and their work, illustrated here with ninety-three stunning reproductions. The movement seemed to die out, Peterson suggests, with the rising popularity of 35mm photography in mid-century, when the care and slow working procedures required by large-format cameras became unpopular. 93 full-color photographs
American Photography
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
A Day in the Life of the American Woman
Author | : Sharon J. Wohlmuth |
Publisher | : Bulfinch Press |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Photography |
ISBN | : 9780821257067 |
Fifty photographers chronicle moments in the lives of a wide diversity of American women--their daily lives, challenges, and roles in society--in a compilation accompanied by essay-length personal profiles, narrative captions, and quotations.
In Sight of America
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.
Photo Du Jour
Author | : David Hume Kennerly |
Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2002-10-01 |
Genre | : Photography |
ISBN | : 0292743491 |
From the jungles of Vietnam, where he shot a photo of "the loneliness and desolation of war" that won a Pulitzer Prize, to the impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton, David Hume Kennerly witnessed and photographed most of the history-making moments of the last third of the twentieth century. As the millennium turned and he set out to cover his eighth presidential campaign, however, the veteran photojournalist sensed something missing. In his words, "I had the uneasy feeling that I couldn't focus only on the story at hand while bypassing the texture of life that surrounds it.... This time I wouldn't speed across that covered bridge to get to the big event on the other side, but instead I would slow down a bit, maybe even pause to take a picture of the bridge." Photo du Jour is Kennerly's visual diary of "the texture of life" at the start of the twenty-first century. As he traveled more than a quarter of a million miles across thirty-eight states and seven countries, Kennerly took a picture every single day in the year 2000, using just one camera and one lens. Some offer candid, behind-the-scenes glimpses of the men who would be president--John McCain, Al Gore, and George W. Bush. Most of the photographs, though, seek to capture not the big, historic moments but rather the ordinary, even whimsical moments when the essence of a person or a place reveals itself to the observer who takes the time and has the heart to really see. Travel with him from Beijing to Boston, Moose to Miami, and Whynot to Weimea in Photo du Jour, and you'll quickly discover that David Kennerly is just such an observer.