American photography / Miles Orvell.

By: Material type: TextSeries: Oxford history of artPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.Description: 256 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0192842714
  • 9780192842718
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • TR 23 .O78 2003
Contents:
Ch. 1. Introduction -- Ch. 2. Presenting the Self -- Ch. 3. Viewing the Landscape -- Ch. 4. Seeing and Believing -- Ch. 5. A Photographic Art -- Ch. 6. Photography and Society -- Ch. 7. Versions of the Self: Memory, Identity, Autobiography -- Ch. 8. Photographing Fictions -- Ch. 9. Photography and the Image World -- Ch. 10. Conclusion: Post-photography.
Review: "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."--Jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-232) and index.

"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."--Jacket.

Ch. 1. Introduction -- Ch. 2. Presenting the Self -- Ch. 3. Viewing the Landscape -- Ch. 4. Seeing and Believing -- Ch. 5. A Photographic Art -- Ch. 6. Photography and Society -- Ch. 7. Versions of the Self: Memory, Identity, Autobiography -- Ch. 8. Photographing Fictions -- Ch. 9. Photography and the Image World -- Ch. 10. Conclusion: Post-photography.

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