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Explore the rich cultural history of photography with this engaging textbook by Mary Warner Marien. Published by Prentice Hall PTR, this trade paperback is a must-have for anyone interested in the topic of cultural history.

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PublisherPrentice Hall PTR

ISBN-100130198560

ISBN-139780130198563

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Number of Pages528 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NamePhotography : a Cultural History

Publication Year2002

SubjectGeneral, History / General

TypeTextbook

AuthorMary Marien

Subject AreaArt

FormatTrade Paperback

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Edition Number6

Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN2002-019763

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Table Of Content1. The Origins of Photography (to 1839). Before Photography. The Invention of "Photographies" . Responses to the Announcement of the Daguerreotype. The Politics of Invention. Focus: The Stranger. Philosophy and Practice: Nature's Automatic Writing. 2. The Second Invention of Photography (1839-1854). The Second Invention. Focus: Iron, Glass, and Photography. Photography and the Sciences. Focus: Photography, Race, and Slavery. Recording Events with the Camera. War and Photography. Focus: The Mexican-American War. Expeditionary and Travel Photography. Portaiture and the Camera. Focus: The First Police Pictures? Photography and Fiction. Philosophy and Practice: A Threat to Art? 3. The Expanding Domain (1855-1880). The Stereograph. War and Photography. Focus: The Valley of Death. Portrait: Mathew Brady. Portrait: Alexander Gardner. Topographical Surveys and Photography. Focus: The Abyssinian Campaign, or the Magdala Expedition. Photography and Science. Photography and the Social Sciences. Popularizing Ethnic and Economic Types. Art and Photography. Portrait: Julia Margaret Cameron. Women Behind the Camera. Focus: Lewis Carroll's Photographs of Children. Philosophy and Practice: "Superseded by Reality" . 4. Photography in the Modern Age (1880-1918). The Challenge for Art Photography. Pictorialism. Portrait: Alfred Stieglitz. Portrait: Edward Steichen. Portrait: Gertrude Käsebier. Photography and the Modern City. Portrait: Jacob Riis. Science and Photography. Focus: Photography and Futurism. Focus: Worker Efficiency: The Gilbreth's Time and Motion Studies. Photography, Social Science, and Exploration. Focus: The National Geographic. War and Photography. Philosophy and Practice: The Real Thing. 5. A New Vision (1919-1945). Revolutionary Art: The Soviet Photograph. Focus: Photomontage or Photocollage. Dada and After. Surrealist Photography. Focus: Film and Photography. Experimental Photography and Advertising. California Modern. Social Science, Social Change, and the Camera. Portrait: Margaret Bourke-White. Portrait: August Sander. Popular Science. World War II. Philosophy and Practice: The "Common Man" and the End of Media Utopia. 6. Through the Lens of Culture (1945-75). The Family of Man. Cultural Realitivism and Cultural Resistance. Focus: Making an Icon of Revolution. Mexico. Portrait: Manuel Álvarez Bravo. Africa. Asia. Portrait: Shomei Tomatsu. Focus: Photographing the Atomic Bomb. The West and the Cold War. Annihilation, Alienation, Abstraction: America. Technology and Media in Postwar America. Photography in Art. Philosophy and Practice. Photography "Born Whole" . 7. Convergences (1975-2000). The Predicaments of Social Concern. Portrait: Sabastãio Salgado. Neutral Vision. Focus: The Cambodian Genocide Photographic Database. The Look of Politics. The Postmodern Era. Focus: Culture Wars. Family Pictures. Focus: Looking at Children. Nature and the Body Politic. Philosophy and Practice: The Passing of the Postmodern. Epilogue: On Beauty, Science, and Nature. Post-Photography. Everything Old Is New Again. Timeline. Glossary. Notes. Bibliography. Literary Credits. Picture Credits. Index.

SynopsisFor one or two semester courses in History of Photography. Incorporating the latest research and international uses of photography, this text surveys the history of photography in such a way that students can gauge the medium's long-term multifold developments and see the historical and intellectual contexts in which photographers lived and worked. It also provides a unique focus on contemporary photo-based work and electronic media., Each of the eight chapters in this book takes a timeframe of between 15 and nearly 40 years in which to examine the medium through the lenses of art, science, social science, travel, war, fashion, the mass media, and individual practitioners. These broad topics work alongside a fully developed cultural context in which the emphasis is more on key ideas than individuals. There are debates such as the nature of invention, the effect of mass media on morality, the use of imagery as a tool of Western colonialism, and the role of the photograph in advertising, radical politics, and family life. Focus boxes highlight interesting cultural or controversial issues, for example Photography and Futurism and Lewis Carroll's Photographs of Children. The author also pays close attention to how contemporary practitioners, commentators, and beholders have talked about specific works, the nature of photography, and the photographer's changing role in society. States, the book benefits from two decades of research into non-Western photography and yields rarely seen work from Latin America, Africa, India, Russia, China, and Japan. Great names from the world over are well represented: Ansel Adams, Henri Cartier- Bresson, Louis-Jacques-Mande Daguerre, Walker Evans, Roger Fenton, Andre Kertesz, Dorothea Lange, Gustave Le Gray, Peter Magubane, Don McCullin, Alexandr Rodchenko, Cindy Sherman, Raghubir Singh, William Henry Fox Talbot, Andy Warhol, and Edward Weston. Additionally, featured in more detail in Portrait boxes are photographers such as Margaret Bourke-White, Mathew Brady, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Julia Margaret Cameron, Gertrude Kasebier, Jacob Riis, August Sander, Alfred Stieglitz, and Shomei Tomatsu.

LC Classification NumberN5300.J29 2002