Reading American Photographs
Reading American Photographs

Author: Alan Trachtenberg

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 1990-11

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9780374522490

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Considers 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.

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.

Authors and Owners
Authors and Owners

Author: Mark Rose

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 1995-08-11

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 0674266803

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The notion of the author as the creator and therefore the first owner of a work is deeply rooted both in our economic system and in our concept of the individual. But this concept of authorship is modern. Mark Rose traces the formation of copyright in eighteenth-century Britain—and in the process highlights still current issues of intellectual property. Authors and Owners is at once a fascinating look at an important episode in legal history and a significant contribution to literary and cultural history.

Creative Photography
Creative Photography

Author: Helmut Gernsheim

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 1991-01-01

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 9780486267500

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First authoritative, comprehensive study of photography from a purely aesthetic point of view, spanning its history from daguerreotypes to modern photo-reportage. 240 superb photographs. First inexpensive paperback edition.

Contested Culture
Contested Culture

Author: Jane M. Gaines

Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

Published: 2000-11-09

Total Pages: 361

ISBN-13: 0807861642

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Jane M. Gaines examines the phenomenon of images as property, focusing on the legal staus of mechanically produced visual and audio images from popular culture. Bridging the fields of critical legal studies and cultural studies, she analyzes copyright, trademark, and intellectual property law, asking how the law constructs works of authorship and who owns the country's cultural heritage.