American Photography

Name: American Photography
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ISBN: 9780192842718

ISBN-10: 0192842714

ISBN-13: 9780192842718

Edition: 2003

Authors: Miles Orvell

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This lively new survey offers fresh insights into 150 years of American photography, placing it in its cultural context for the first time. Orvell examinines this fascinating subject through portraiture and landscape photography, eamily albums and memory, and analyses the particularly 'American' way in which American photographers have viewed the world around them.Combining a clear overview of the changing nature of photographic thinking and practice in this period, with an exploration of key concepts, the result is the first coherent history of American photography, which examines issues such as the nature of photographic exploitation, experimental techniques, the power of the photograph…

Book details

List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/10/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.57" wide x 9.37" long x 0.65" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English

Miles Orvell is professor of English and American studies at Temple University. He is the author of The Death and Life of Main Street: Small Towns in American Memory, Space, and Community.




Introduction



Presenting the Self



Viewing the Landscape



Seeing and Believing



A Photographic Art



Photography and Society



Versions of the Self



Photographing Fictions



Photography and the Image World



Conclusion: Post Photography


Timeline


Further Reading


Museums and Websites


Index