American Modern

American Modern

Author: Sharon Corwin

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 0520265629

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This volume, a companion to the exhibition of the same name, explores the reinvention of documentary photography in the 1930s, focusing on the work of three iconic figures: Berenice Abbott, Walker Evans, and Margaret Bourke-White.


Paper Promises

Paper Promises

Author: Mazie M. Harris

Publisher: Getty Publications

Published: 2018-03-20

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 1606065491

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Scholarship on photography’s earliest years has tended to focus on daguerreotypes on metal or on the European development of paper photographs made from glass or paper negatives. But Americans also experimented with negative-positive processes to produce photographic images on a variety of paper formats in the early decades of the medium. Paper Promises: Early American Photography presents this rarely studied topic within photographic history. The well-researched and richly detailed texts in this book delve into the complexities of early paper photography in the United States from the 1840s to 1860s, bringing to light a little-known era of American photographic appropriation and adaptation. Exploring the economic, political, intellectual, and social factors that impacted its unique evolution, both the essays and the carefully selected images illustrate the importance of photographic reproduction in shaping and circulating perceptions of America and its people during a critical period of political tension and territorial expansion. Due to the fragility of paper photography from this period, the works in this catalogue are rarely displayed, making the volume an essential tool for any scholar in the field and a very rare peek into the mid-nineteenth century.


American Photography

American Photography

Author: Vicki Goldberg

Publisher: Chronicle Books

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 0811826228

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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


American Photography 34

American Photography 34

Author: Mark Heflin

Publisher:

Published: 2018-11-08

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 9781886212497

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The year's best photography as selected by a jury of photo and design professionals.