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The Photographic Arts

Categorie	Fotografie (Kunst)
Boeknummer	#332005-AE3
Titel	The Photographic Arts
Auteur	Wood, John
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	University of Iowa Press
Jaar van uitgave	1997
ISBN10	0877455732
ISBN13	9780877455738
Beschrijving	Original cloth, dust jacket, 4to.
Samenvatting	Included in this seminal work are essays on the western American daguerreotype, contemporary daguerreotypy, the American autochrome, the art of the cyanotype, European pictorialism, and American symbolism in photography. Wood's fresh use of the diaries and journals of gold field miners and his penetrating vision of the near extermination of indigenous peoples - "the American holocaust" - enable him to contrast between the reality and the mythology manifested in the faces of the photographed participants. His equally ingenious view of American symbolist photography and the primary myth to which most of this work refers, the Grail Quest, leads him to some striking conclusions in the context of "Visions of Spirituality and Desire." His survey both of the history of the cya... (Lees verder)notype process and of a contemporary practitioner, his dissenting opinion of the controlling influence of Alfred Stieglitz on the pictorialist movement, and his groundbreaking view of the autochrome process in America are still other important and unique contributions to the field of photographic history.
Pagina's	191
Conditie	Nieuw — Still shrink wrapped.
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