Old Fields Photography, Glamour, and Fantasy Landscape

Name: Old Fields Photography, Glamour, and Fantasy Landscape
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ISBN: 9780813935157

ISBN-10: 0813935156

ISBN-13: 9780813935157

Edition: 2014

Authors: John R. Stilgoe

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Glamour subverts convention. As viewed through the lens of photography, models, images, and even landscapes can skew ordinary ways of seeing, suggesting new worlds imbued with fantasy, mystery, sexuality, and tension.In Old Fields,John Stilgoe—one of the most original observers of his time—offers a poetic and controversial exploration of the generations-long effort to portray glamour. Fusing three forces in contemporary American culture—amateur photography after 1880; the rise of glamour and fantasy; and the often-mysterious quality of landscape photographs—Stilgoe provides a wide-ranging yet concentrated take on the cultural legacy of our photographic history.Through the medium of "shop…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Publication date: 3/4/2014
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 536
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.936
Language: English