The Photograph And The American Dream 1840 1940

Author : Stephen White,Andreas Blühm
Publisher : Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9040096406

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The Photograph and the American Dream, 1840-1940 by Stephen White,Andreas Blühm Pdf

Perhaps no nation has been so thoroughly shaped by its dreams as has America, and perhaps no other dreams have been captured on camera as often and as diversely as America's. The mythic American Dream has been the subject of photographic documentation since the 1840s, when photographers first began traveling to the New World in search of subjects. From an unknown photographer's picture of newborn George B. Billings Rego, scion of an immigrant Portuguese family and the first child ever born at Boston Long Wharf, to Lewis Hine's wrenching image of a young cotton mill worker in Georgia, to Alfred Stieglitz's awesome New York cityscapes, the photographs collected here reveal the multiple facets of 100 of the most decisive years of American development. Between 1840 and 1940, immigrants became homeowners, untouched lands exploded in superhuman industrial growth, tourists replaced pioneers, and the American metropolis grew taller and shinier--and the camera caught it all.

Author : William Jefferson Clinton,Charles Dickens,Stephen White,Andreas Blühm
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:863015305

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The photograph and the American dream, 1840-1940 by William Jefferson Clinton,Charles Dickens,Stephen White,Andreas Blühm Pdf

Author : James Guimond
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0807843083

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American Photography and the American Dream by James Guimond Pdf

Looks 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

Author : Mick Gidley
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-15
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781861898838

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Photography and the USA by Mick Gidley Pdf

From 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.

Author : Mark Bradley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521829755

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The World Reimagined by Mark Bradley Pdf

This book uncovers how human rights gained meaning and power for Americans in the 1940s, the 1970s and today.

Author : Miles Orvell
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Art
ISBN : 0192842714

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American Photography by Miles Orvell Pdf

"This comprehensive new survey places American photography in its cultural context for the first time. Prize-winning author, Miles Orvell, examines this fascinating subject through portraiture and landscape photography, family albums and memory, analyzing the particular way in which American photographers view the world around them - from Alfred Stieglitz to Walker Evans, Andy Warhol to Cindy Sherman."--Back cover.

Author : Richard Malin Ohmann
Publisher : Verso
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1859841104

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Selling Culture by Richard Malin Ohmann Pdf

In this fascinating and highly acclaimed study of the development of consumer society in the United States, Richard Ohmann traces the birth and subsequent growth of mass culture that came with the rise of general-interest magazines and brand-name products. 20 photos.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Dealers (Retail trade)
ISBN : UOM:39015049133401

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The Photograph Collector by Anonim Pdf

Author : Stacey McCarroll Cutshaw,Ross Barrett,Bernard L. Herman,Daile Kaplan
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Photography
ISBN : UOM:39076002742836

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In the Vernacular by Stacey McCarroll Cutshaw,Ross Barrett,Bernard L. Herman,Daile Kaplan Pdf

Considers photography as a "vernacular" practice, drawing from a collection of 4000 images including snapshots, wedding photographs, news and advertising images, insurance pictures, family pictures, travel albums, grade-school class portraits, and pin-up photographs. Includes essays by Ross Barrett, Stacey McCarroll Cutshaw, Rernard L. Herman, and Daile Kaplan.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Photography
ISBN : UOM:39015047953362

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American Photo by Anonim Pdf

Author : Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 968 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0674002768

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The Harvard Guide to African-American History by Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham Pdf

Compiles information and interpretations on the past 500 years of African American history, containing essays on historical research aids, bibliographies, resources for womens' issues, and an accompanying CD-ROM providing bibliographical entries.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Academic libraries
ISBN : UOM:39015079402452

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Choice by Anonim Pdf

Author : Various,Aperture Foundation Inc Staff
Publisher : Aperture Direct
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Photography
ISBN : UVA:X006127781

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Aperture 164 by Various,Aperture Foundation Inc Staff Pdf

Aperture 164 Summer 2001 A Heightened Perception: The Color of Wildness - Rebecca Solnit on Eliot Porter as pioneer in color photography and environmental propagandist Now Playing in Another World - Peter Moore's photographs and Barbara Moore's writing reveal the adventurous, often subversive spirit of the avant garde. Still Life - Miguel Rio Branco's provocative "Still Life," a visual poem "Such Damnable Ghastliness" - Danny Lyon's personal reflections on the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Deadly Traffic: Salvadoran Street Gangs - Donna DeCesare on the street gangs of El Salvador, L.A.'s export to Central America 2001: A Beach Odyssey - Visions of summer in poetry and images - Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami's views of the infinite in films and stills, by Minna Proctor Photographers: Domenica Bucalo, Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Bruce Davidson, Donna DeCesare, Elliott Erwitt, Barbara Ess, Zhuang Huang, Peter Moore, Mariko Mori, Eliot Porter, Matthieu Ricard, Miguel Rio Branco, Sandy Skoglund, Nick Waplington

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 746 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2003-10
Category : California, Southern
ISBN : STANFORD:36105113554286

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Los Angeles Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jeff Allred
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199324002

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American Modernism and Depression Documentary by Jeff Allred Pdf

Photos filled with the forlorn faces of hungry and impoverished Americans that came to characterize the desolation of the Great Depression are among the best known artworks of the twentieth century. Captured by the camera's eye, these stark depictions of suffering became iconic markers of a formative period in U.S. history. Although there has been an ample amount of critical inquiry on Depression-era photographs, the bulk of scholarship treats them as isolated art objects. And yet they were often joined together with evocative writing in a genre that flourished amid the period, the documentary book. American Modernism and Depression Documentary looks at the tradition of the hybrid, verbal-visual texts that flourished during a time when U.S. citizens were becoming increasingly conscious of the life of a larger nation. Jeff Allred draws on a range of seminal works to illustrate the convergence of modernism and documentary, two forms often regarded as unrelated. Whereas critics routinely look to James Agee and Walker Evans' Let Us Now Praise Famous Men as the sole instance of the modernist documentary book, Allred turns to such works as Richard Wright's scathing 12 Million Black Voices, and the oft-neglected You Have Seen Their Faces by Erskine Caldwell and Margaret Bourke-White to open up the critical playing field. And rather than focusing on the ethos of Progressivism and/or the politics and aesthetics of the New Deal, Allred emphasizes the centrality of Life magazine to the consolidation of a novel cultural form.