Pictorial Photography in America
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Published: 1920
Total Pages: 92
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America Through the Lens
Author: Martin W. Sandler
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
Published: 2014-04-22
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 1466869097
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera."-Lewis Hine A stunning view of America as captured by groundbreaking photographers American history is punctuated by defining moments-some proud, some tragic, some beautiful. Photography has made it possible for these moments to be captured and shared with the public. As the craft has evolved from unwieldy glass negatives to digital imagery, the photographs themselves have changed the way we see the world. From Mathew Brady's startling Civil War photographs to NASA's stunning images of the universe, America Through the Lens by Martin W. Sandler highlights twelve photographers whose work has truly changed the nation.
Picturing a Nation: The Great Depression’s Finest Photographers Introduce America to Itself
Author: Martin W. Sandler
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Published: 2021-11-23
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 1536222593
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA National Book Award winner mines photographic gold to show—and tell—the story of the Great Depression. In an exquisitely curated volume of 140 full-color and black-and-white photographs, Martin W. Sandler unpacks the United States Farm Security Administration’s sweeping visual record of the Great Depression. In 1935, with the nation bent under unprecedented unemployment and economic hardship, the FSA sent ten photographers, including Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, and Gordon Parks, on the road trip of a lifetime. The images they logged revealed the daily lives of Southern sharecroppers, Dust Bowl farmers in the Midwest, Western migrant workers, and families scraping by in Northeast cities. Using their cameras as weapons against poverty and racism—and in service of hope, courage, and human dignity—these talented photographers created not only a collective work of art, but a national treasure. Grouped into four geographical regions and locked in focus by rich historical commentary, these images—many now iconic—are history at its most powerful and immediate. Extensive back matter includes photographer profiles and a bibliography.
Picturing a Nation: The Great Depression’s Finest Photographers Introduce America to Itself
Author: Martin W. Sandler
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Published: 2021-11-23
Total Pages: 177
ISBN-13: 1536215252
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book features photographs taken for the Farm Security Administration by ten renowned photographers, featuring scenes from regions throughout the United States.
The Challenge to Succeed
Author: Professional Photographers of America staff
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Published: 2018-12-20
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ISBN-13: 9780692176825
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe history of Professional Photographers of America, a nonprofit professional association serving the needs of portrait, wedding, and other working photographers
Seeing America
Author: Melissa A. McEuen
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2014-10-17
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13: 0813158419
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSeeing America explores the camera work of five women who directed their visions toward influencing social policy and cultural theory. Taken together, they visually articulated the essential ideas occupying the American consciousness in the years between the world wars. Melissa McEuen examines the work of Doris Ulmann, who made portraits of celebrated artists in urban areas and lesser-known craftspeople in rural places; Dorothea Lange, who magnified human dignity in the midst of poverty and unemployment; Marion Post Wolcott, a steadfast believer in collective strength as the antidote to social ills and the best defense against future challenges; Margaret Bourke-White, who applied avant-garde advertising techniques in her exploration of the human condition; and Berenice Abbott, a devoted observer of the continuous motion and chaotic energy that characterized the modern cityscape. Combining feminist biography with analysis of visual texts, McEuen considers the various prisms though which each woman saw and revealed America. Their documentary photographs were the result of personal visions that had been formed by experiences and emotions as well as by careful calculations and technological processes. These photographers captured the astounding variety of occupations, values, and leisure activities that shaped the nation, and their photographs illuminate the intricate workings of American culture in the 1920s and 1930s.
Photography and the USA
Author: Mick Gidley
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Published: 2010-11-15
Total Pages: 186
ISBN-13: 1861898835
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom Ansel Adams to Carleton Watkins, Diane Arbus to Weegee, Richard Avedon to James VanDerZee, American photographers have recorded their vast, multicultural nation in images that, for more than a hundred years, have come to define the USA. In Photography and the USA, Mick Gidley explores not only the medium of photography and the efforts to capture key events and moments through photographs, but also the many ways in which the medium has played a formative role in American culture. Photography and the USA encompasses the major movements, figures and works that are crucial to understanding American photography, but also pays attention to more obscure aspects of photography’s history. Focusing on works that reveal many different facets of America, its landscapes and its people, Gidley explores the ambiguities of American history and culture. We encounter images that range from an anti-lynching demo in 1934 to Dorothea Lange’s poster “All races serve the crops in California;” an early photographic view of Niagara Falls against the painstaking detail of Edward Weston’s Pepper, No. 30; a fireman’s fight in the San Francisco earthquake of 1906 to the Ground Zero images of 2001 by Joel Meyerowitz; an 1890s “Wanted” image to Elliot Erwitt’s shot of the Nixon–Kruschchev “Kitchen Debate.” Organizing his narrative around the themes of history, technology, the document and the emblem, Mick Gidley not only presents a history of photography, but also reveals the complexities inherent in reading photographs themselves. A concise yet comprehensive overview of photography in the United States, this book is an excellent introduction to the subject for American Studies or visual arts students, or for anyone interested in US history or culture.
Pictorial Photography in America
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Published: 1922
Total Pages: 120
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Author: James Guimond
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780807843086
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLooks at how documentary photographers have contested the idea of the American dream, and discusses the work of Francis Benjamin Johnston, Lewis Hine, Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, William Klein, Diane Arbus, and Robert Frank
Reading American Photographs
Author: Alan Trachtenberg
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 1990-11
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780374522490
DOWNLOAD EBOOKConsiders 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.
