Reading American Photographs

Reading American Photographs
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Publisher : Macmillan
Total Pages : 356
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ISBN-10 : 0374522499
ISBN-13 : 9780374522490
Rating : 4/5 (99 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Reading American Photographs by : Alan Trachtenberg

Download or read book Reading American Photographs written by Alan Trachtenberg and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1990-11 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Walker Evans

Walker Evans
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Total Pages : 208
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ISBN-10 : 0870702688
ISBN-13 : 9780870702686
Rating : 4/5 (88 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Walker Evans by : Walker Evans

Download or read book Walker Evans written by Walker Evans and published by . This book was released on 2006-09-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The use of the visual arts to show us our own moral and economic situation has today fallen almost completely into the hands of the photographer. It is for him to fix and to reveal the whole aspect of our society: to record for use in the future our disasters and our claims to divinity. Walker Evans, photographing in New England or Louisiana, watching a Cuban political funeral or a Mississippi flood, working cautiously so as to disturb nothing in the normal atmosphere of the average place, can be considered a kind of disembodied, burrowing eye, a conspirator against time and its hammers. His photographs are the records of contemporary civilization in eastern American.~In the reproductions presented here, two large divisions have been made. The photographs are arranged to be seen in their given sequence. In the first part, which might be labeled "People by Photography," we have an aspect of America for which it would be difficult to claim too much. The physiognomy of a nation is laid on your table. In the second part are pictures which refer to the continuous fact of an indigenous American expression, whatever its source, whatever form it has taken, whether in sculpture, paint, or architecture: that native accent we find again in Kentucky mountain and cowboy ballads and in contemporary swing-music. --from the jacket of the 1938 edition~More than any other artist, Walker Evans invented the image of essential America that we have long since accepted as fact. His work, presented in stark and prototypical form in American Photographs, has made its impact not only on photography but also on modern literature, film, and the traditional visual arts. First published in 1938 by The Museum of Modern Art, American Photographs has often been out of print. This edition uses duotone plates made for the 1988 edition from original prints, and makes Evans' landmark book available again. The design and typography have been recreated as precisely as possible.

More American Photographs

More American Photographs
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Publisher : California College of the Arts
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 0980205581
ISBN-13 : 9780980205589
Rating : 4/5 (81 Downloads)

Book Synopsis More American Photographs by : CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts

Download or read book More American Photographs written by CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts and published by California College of the Arts. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "12 contemporary photographers were commissioned to travel the United States and document its land and people. Selections from the bodies of work they created were presented at the Wattis Institute alongside a number of photographs from the Farm Security Administration, whose photographers had, some 80 years earlier, received similar instructions to travel the country and document the America they saw"--P. 11.

American Photographs

American Photographs
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Publisher : Assouline
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 2843236991
ISBN-13 : 9782843236990
Rating : 4/5 (91 Downloads)

Book Synopsis American Photographs by : James Danziger

Download or read book American Photographs written by James Danziger and published by Assouline. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dorothea Lange

Dorothea Lange
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Total Pages : 192
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ISBN-10 : 0918471303
ISBN-13 : 9780918471307
Rating : 4/5 (03 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Dorothea Lange by : Therese Thau Heyman

Download or read book Dorothea Lange written by Therese Thau Heyman and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles Lange's career with over 150 photographs, from her early work documenting the Depression to her photo-essays of the 1940s and 1950s depicting a changing American society--Cover.

Classic Essays on Photography

Classic Essays on Photography
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Publisher : Leetes Island Books
Total Pages : 326
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015066040174
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (74 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Classic Essays on Photography by : Alan Trachtenberg

Download or read book Classic Essays on Photography written by Alan Trachtenberg and published by Leetes Island Books. This book was released on 1980 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing 30 essays that embody the history of photography, this collection includes contributions from Niepce, Daguerre, Fox, Talbot, Poe, Emerson, Hine, Stieglitz, and Weston, among others.

American Pictures

American Pictures
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Total Pages : 304
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ISBN-10 : MINN:31951001396162A
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Book Synopsis American Pictures by : Jacob Holdt

Download or read book American Pictures written by Jacob Holdt and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1971 to 1978 the author, a Dane, hitchiked across more than 100,000 miles of America. This volume, written at the journey's end, contains some 700 of the photographs he took, and describes his odyssey.