The Valiant Knights of Daguerre
The Valiant Knights of Daguerre

Author: Sadakichi Hartmann

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1978-01-01

Total Pages: 390

ISBN-13: 9780520033566

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"From 1898 until shortly after World War I, Hartmann rampaged through the photographic world, first as Alfred Stieglitz's iconoclastic hatchetman of the Photo-Secession movement, later as an unruly rebel sniping away at his mentor under the pseudonym of Caliban. One of the most prolific photographic critics of all time, Hartmann discovered many of our greatest photographers, championed photography as an art form, and sparked endless controversies about the medium." -- page [2] of cover.

Witch of Kodakery
Witch of Kodakery

Author: Carole Glauber

Publisher:

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13:

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The Witch of Kodakery is the ground-breaking biography of Myra Albert Wiggins, the successful early 20th-century Oregon photographic artist with connections to Alfred Stieglitz and the Photo-Secession. Myra Wiggins (1869-1956) embodied the ideal of the "new woman" - independent, energetic, and ambitious - as depicted by the Eastman Kodak Company's "Kodak Girl" and promoted as "The Witchery of Kodakery". In Witch of Kodakery, biographer Carole Glauber resurrects Wiggins' pioneering role with a provocative text and fine examples of the artist's work, particularly from Wiggins' most prolific years, 1889 to the early 1910s. Also included is a foreword by Terry Toedtemeier, curator of photography at the Portland Art Museum.

Kodaks and Kodak Supplies, 1914
Kodaks and Kodak Supplies, 1914

Author: Canadian Kodak Company

Publisher: DigiCat

Published: 2022-08-15

Total Pages: 78

ISBN-13:

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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Kodaks and Kodak Supplies, 1914" by Canadian Kodak Company. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Large-format Photography
Large-format Photography

Author: Eastman Kodak Company

Publisher: Kodak

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 122

ISBN-13:

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Large-format photographs are often admired for their superior sharpness, exquisite tonal range, and minute detail. The advantages of large-format film and the broad capabilities of the large-format view camera make it the preferred tool of many professional photographers. Whether your interest is in landscapes, portraits or commercial and industrial photography, this book will instruct you on all the special techniques required to master large-format view cameras.

TV Snapshots
TV Snapshots

Author: Lynn Spigel

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2022-04-08

Total Pages: 267

ISBN-13: 1478022892

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In TV Snapshots, Lynn Spigel explores snapshots of people posing in front of their television sets in the 1950s through the early 1970s. Like today’s selfies, TV snapshots were a popular photographic practice through which people visualized their lives in an increasingly mediated culture. Drawing on her collection of over 5,000 TV snapshots, Spigel shows that people did not just watch TV: women used the TV set as a backdrop for fashion and glamour poses; people dressed in drag in front of the screen; and in pinup poses, people even turned the TV setting into a space for erotic display. While the television industry promoted on-screen images of white nuclear families in suburban homes, the snapshots depict a broad range of people across racial, ethnic, and class backgrounds that do not always conform to the reigning middle-class nuclear family ideal. Showing how the television set became a central presence in the home that exceeded its mass entertainment function, Spigel highlights how TV snapshots complicate understandings of the significance of television in everyday life.

George Eastman
George Eastman

Author: Elizabeth Brayer

Publisher: University Rochester Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 710

ISBN-13: 9781580462471

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George Eastman transformed the world of photography. In this revealing and informative biography, Elizabeth Brayer draws a vivid portrait of this enigmatic and complex man.

Home Sweat Home
Home Sweat Home

Author: Elizabeth Patton

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2014-01-23

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 1442229705

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Coeditors Elizabeth Patton and Mimi Choi argue that an in-depth examination of media images of housework from the mid-nineteenth century to the early twenty-first century is long overdue. Modern depictions often imply that certain concerns can be resolved through excessive domesticity, reflecting some of the complicated and unfinished issues of second-wave feminism. Home Sweat Home: Perspectives on Housework and Modern Relationships reveals how widespread the cultural image of “perfect” housewives and the invisibility of household labor were in the past and remain today. In this collection of essays, contributors explore the construction of women as homemakers and the erasure of household labor from the middle-class home in popular representations of housework. They concentrate on such matters as the impact of second-wave feminism on families and gender relations; of popular culture—especially in film, television, magazines, and advertising—on our views of what constitutes home life and gender relations; and of changing views of sexuality and masculinity within the domestic sphere. Home Sweat Home will interest students and scholars of gender, cultural, media, and communication studies; sociology; and American history and appeal to anyone curious about housework, gender relations and popular culture.