Clarence H White And His World

Author : Anne McCauley
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780300229080

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Clarence H. White and His World by Anne McCauley Pdf

Restoring a gifted art photographer to his place in the American canon and, in the process, reshaping and expanding our understanding of early 20th-century American photography Clarence H. White (1871–1925) was one of the most influential art photographers and teachers of the early 20th century and a founding member of the Photo-Secession. This beautiful publication offers a new appraisal of White’s contributions, including his groundbreaking aesthetic experiments, his commitment to the ideals of American socialism, and his embrace of the expanding fields of photographic book and fashion illustration, celebrity portraiture, and advertising. Based on extensive archival research, the book challenges the idea of an abrupt rupture between prewar, soft-focus idealizing photography and postwar “modernism” to paint a more nuanced picture of American culture in the Progressive era. Clarence H. White and His World begins with the artist’s early work in Ohio, which shares with the nascent Arts and Crafts movement the advocacy of hand production, closeness to nature, and the simple life. White’s involvement with the Photo-Secession and his move to New York in 1906 mark a shift in his production, as it grew to encompass commercial portraiture and an increasing commitment to teaching, which ultimately led him to establish the first institutions in America to combine instruction in both technical and aesthetic aspects of photography. The book also incorporates new formal and scientific analysis of White’s work and techniques, a complete exhibition record, and many unpublished illustrations of the moody outdoor scenes and quiet images of domestic life for which he was revered.

Author : Bonnie Yochelson,Kathleen A. Erwin
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015038024157

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Pictorialism Into Modernism by Bonnie Yochelson,Kathleen A. Erwin Pdf

This book presents the first comprehensive examination of the photographic work and teaching of Clarence H. White and his students, who were New York's vanguard art photographers in the first half of this century. The incisive texts, written by two White scholars, examine the social context of White's ideologies, and arts and crafts principles. These beautifully reproduced images reveal the photographic work of White and his students, which is based on the aesthetic principles that formed the foundations of modernism.

Author : Peter C. Bunnell,Clarence H. White,Trisolini Gallery
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 79 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:181841691

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Clarence H. White by Peter C. Bunnell,Clarence H. White,Trisolini Gallery Pdf

Author : Clarence H. White
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Photography
ISBN : UOM:39015006767142

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Clarence H. White by Clarence H. White Pdf

Author : Kathleen Pyne
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-23
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780300249941

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Anne Brigman by Kathleen Pyne Pdf

The life and work of an essential photographer whose feminism and pictorialist images distanced her from the mainstream In the first book devoted to Anne Brigman (1869–1950), Kathleen Pyne traces the groundbreaking photographer’s life from Hawai‘i to the Sierra and elsewhere in California, revealing how her photographs emerged from her experience of local place and cultural politics. Brigman’s work caught the eye of the well-known photographer Alfred Stieglitz, who welcomed her as one of the original members of his Photo-Secession group. He promoted her work as exemplary of his modernism and praised her Sierra landscapes with female nudes—work that at the time separated Brigman from the spiritualized upper-class femininity of other women photographers. Stieglitz later drew on Brigman’s images of the expressive female body in shaping the public persona of Georgia O’Keeffe into his ideal woman artist. This nuanced account reasserts Brigman’s place among photography’s most important early advocates and provides new insight into the gender and racialist dynamics of the early twentieth-century art world, especially on the West Coast of the United States.

Author : Clarence John Laughlin,John H. Lawrence,Patricia Brady Schmit,Patricia Brady
Publisher : Bulfinch Press
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Photography
ISBN : 0821223615

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Haunter of Ruins by Clarence John Laughlin,John H. Lawrence,Patricia Brady Schmit,Patricia Brady Pdf

Called "Edgar Allan Poe with a camera", Clarence John Laughlin (1905-1984) reveals New Orleans at its most brooding and mysterious in 69 never-before-published images. Compiled by the Historic New Orleans Collection, this volume brings together an eerie gallery of French Quarter facades, funerary sculpture, and other details that summon up the Acadian gothic described by six distinguished writers. 69 illustrations.

Author : A. J. Meek
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN : 1578069092

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Clarence John Laughlin by A. J. Meek Pdf

A biography of a New Orleans photographer of worldwide acclaim

Author : Christian A. Peterson
Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Photography
ISBN : 0393041115

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After the Photo-secession by Christian A. Peterson Pdf

The beautiful and seductive images of an overlooked movement, reproduced in their full tonal range. Much has been written about Alfred Stieglitz and his role in establishing photography as an art. Little attention, however, has been paid to the pictorial photographers who followed Stieglitz, among them Imo Jean Cunningham, Edward Weston, Clarence H. White, and a host of others -- those who, in a widespread movement, approached photography in a painterly fashion, creating beautiful images through the use of careful lighting, manipulated tones, soft focus effects, and artistic compositions. In this important volume, Christian A. Peterson finally gives the pictorialists of the first half of the twentieth century their due. He describes the backgrounds of the movement, their methods, the photo clubs they belonged to, and their work, illustrated here with ninety-three stunning reproductions. The movement seemed to die out, Peterson suggests, with the rising popularity of 35mm photography in mid-century, when the care and slow working procedures required by large-format cameras became unpopular. 93 full-color photographs

Author : Beth Gates Warren
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781606060704

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Artful Lives by Beth Gates Warren Pdf

This captivating biography reveals the previously untold love story of Edward Weston and Margrethe Mather. Both were photographic artists at the center of the bohemian cultural scene in Los Angeles during the 1910s and 1920s, yet Weston would become a major Modernist photographer while Mather, who Weston ultimately expunged from his journals, would fall into obscurity. The book reveals how they and their entourage sought out the limelight as the Hollywood film industry came of age. Based on ten years of research and illustrated with extraordinary images, some never published, this history has a captivating range of characters, including Charlie Chaplin, Imogen Cunningham, Max Eastman, Emma Goldman, Tina Modotti, Vaslav Nijinsky, and Carl Sandburg. The lively text brings to life the ambiance of this exciting time in Los Angeles history as well as its darker side. Artful Lives exceeds any previously published account of this key period in Weston's development and reveals Mather's important contribution to it, making it an essential reference in Weston studies.

Author : Patricia Johnston
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780520321311

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Real Fantasies by Patricia Johnston Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-22
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780847869299

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Anne Brigman by Anonim Pdf

A look at one of the first feminist artists, Pictorialist photographer Anne Brigman, best known for her iconic landscape photographs made in the early 1900s depicting female nudes outdoors in rugged northern California. This main volume of a previously published slipcased edition is the catalogue of the major retrospective exhibition that took place in 2018 at the Nevada Museum of Art, and remains the first comprehensive book to chronicle the photography of Anne W. Brigman (1869-1950), one of the most important of all American women photographers. This monumental publication rediscovers and celebrates the work of Brigman, whose photography was considered radical for its time. For Brigman to objectify her own nude body as the subject of her photographs in the turn of the 20th century was groundbreaking; to do so outdoors in a near-desolate wilderness setting was revolutionary. Brigman's significance spanned both coasts: in northern California, where she lived, she was known as a poet, a critic, and a member of the Pictorialist photography movement, whose practitioners employed various methods of manipulation to achieve images that were considered beautiful and romantic. On the east coast, her work was promoted by Alfred Stieglitz, who published her photographs in Camera Work and elected her as a Fellow of the prestigious Photo-Secession. The beautifully produced large-format book is devoted to Brigman's entire career, covering such topics as Brigman's work within the contexts of the California Arts & Crafts movement and New York Modernism; her relationship to High Sierra mountaineering and early 20th-century poetry; and the relevance of her work to contemporary conversations regarding gendered landscapes of the American frontier.

Author : David Francis Martin,Nicolette Bromberg
Publisher : Scott and Laurie Oki Series in Asian American Studies
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 0295990856

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Shadows of a Fleeting World by David Francis Martin,Nicolette Bromberg Pdf

"In association with University of Washington Libraries and the Henry Art Gallery."

Author : Edward Steichen
Publisher : ABRAMS
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Photography, Artistic
ISBN : 0810961695

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The Family of Man by Edward Steichen Pdf

In the pages of this book are reproduced all of the 503 images that Steichen described as "photographs, made in all parts of the world, of the gamut of life from birth to death with emphasis on daily relationship..."-- Back cover.

Author : Robert Frank
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Black-and-white photography
ISBN : 3865218083

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Black, White and Things by Robert Frank Pdf

Containing photographs taken between 1948 and 1952, Black White and Things was in its original form a book hand-crafted by Robert Frank in 1952. Frank made three identical copies designed by Werner Zryd, each with spiral binding and original photographs. Printed for an exhibition at the National Gallery in Washington in 1994, Frank has now redesigned the book. Separated into three categories "black", "white", and "things", which are shaped more by mood than subject matter, the book traces Frank's travels to cities such as Paris, New York, Valencia and St. Louis. In the white section for instance, he brings photographs of vastly different motifs under a single aesthetic umbrella - his first wife reclining with their new-born baby, peasants squatting against a flaking wall in Peru, and a business man strolling past a snowdecked tree in London.

Author : Clarence Lusane
Publisher : City Lights Books
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780872866119

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The Black History of the White House by Clarence Lusane Pdf

The Black History of the White House presents the untold history, racial politics, and shifting significance of the White House as experienced by African Americans, from the generations of enslaved people who helped to build it or were forced to work there to its first black First Family, the Obamas. Clarence Lusane juxtaposes significant events in White House history with the ongoing struggle for democratic, civil, and human rights by black Americans and demonstrates that only during crises have presidents used their authority to advance racial justice. He describes how in 1901 the building was officially named the “White House” amidst a furious backlash against President Roosevelt for inviting Booker T. Washington to dinner, and how that same year that saw the consolidation of white power with the departure of the last black Congressmember elected after the Civil War. Lusane explores how, from its construction in 1792 to its becoming the home of the first black president, the White House has been a prism through which to view the progress and struggles of black Americans seeking full citizenship and justice. “Clarence Lusane is one of America’s most thoughtful and critical thinkers on issues of race, class and power.”—Manning Marable "Barack Obama may be the first black president in the White House, but he's far from the first black person to work in it. In this fascinating history of all the enslaved people, workers and entertainers who spent time in the president's official residence over the years, Clarence Lusane restores the White House to its true colors."—Barbara Ehrenreich "Reading The Black History of the White House shows us how much we DON'T know about our history, politics, and culture. In a very accessible and polished style, Clarence Lusane takes us inside the key national events of the American past and present. He reveals new dimensions of the black presence in the US from revolutionary days to the Obama campaign. Yes, 'black hands built the White House'—enslaved black hands—but they also built this country's economy, political system, and culture, in ways Lusane shows us in great detail. A particularly important feature of this book its personal storytelling: we see black political history through the experiences and insights of little-known participants in great American events. The detailed lives of Washington's slaves seeking freedom, or the complexities of Duke Ellington's relationships with the Truman and Eisenhower White House, show us American racism, and also black America's fierce hunger for freedom, in brand new and very exciting ways. This book would be a great addition to many courses in history, sociology, or ethnic studies courses. Highly recommended!"—Howard Winant "The White House was built with slave labor and at least six US presidents owned slaves during their time in office. With these facts, Clarence Lusane, a political science professor at American University, opens The Black History of the White House(City Lights), a fascinating story of race relations that plays out both on the domestic front and the international stage. As Lusane writes, 'The Lincoln White House resolved the issue of slavery, but not that of racism.' Along with the political calculations surrounding who gets invited to the White House are matters of musical tastes and opinionated first ladies, ingredients that make for good storytelling."—Boston Globe Dr. Clarence Lusane has published in The Washington Post, The Miami Herald, The Baltimore Sun, Oakland Tribune, Black Scholar, and Race and Class. He often appears on PBS, BET, C-SPAN, and other national media.