Disappearing Witness Change in Twentieth-Century American Photography

Name: Disappearing Witness Change in Twentieth-Century American Photography
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ISBN: 9780801871672

ISBN-10: 0801871670

ISBN-13: 9780801871672

Edition: 2003

Authors: Gretchen Garner

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American photographers documented and defined the twentieth century in a remarkable array of images, the style and content of which evolved dramatically over the course of the century. In Disappearing Witness, photographer and art historian Gretchen Garner chronicles this transformation, from the introduction of the 35-millimeter camera in the 1920s to the digital photography of today. Accompanied by over 125 key works in the history of photography -- fine-art, documentary, and editorial -- her thoughtful and enlightening discussion traces American photography's aesthetic, commercial, and technological changes, as the medium's primary role of spontaneous witness gradually gave way to…

Book details

List price: $48.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 7/25/2003
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 328
Size: 7.00" wide x 10.00" long x 1.37" tall
Weight: 1.408
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Preface and Acknowledgments


Introduction



Photography of Witness



Being There: Spontaneous Witness



Speed and the Machine



Fine-Art Photography, Redefined



Documentary



The Magazines



Spirit in Photography



Disappearing Witness



New Paradigms: Uelsmann, Michals, and Samaras



Documentary-Style and Street Photography



Photography about Photography: The Academy and the Art World



New Landscapes, New Portraits: The Seventies and Eighties



The Subject Self



Arrangement, Invention, and Appropriation



Digitized Photography


Conclusion


Notes