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American Photography
Miles Orvell
256 pages
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numerous haltones and colour photographs
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238x167mm
978-0-19-284271-8
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Paperback
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24 April 2003
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- Prize winning author, for The Real Thing: Imitation and Authenticity in American Culture 1880-1940 (University of North Carolina Press, 1989)
- Only comprehensive introduction to American photography.
- Includes a range of well-known and less well-known images
- Beautifully illustrated throughout, with 130 images, 58 in colour.
- Useful further reading and museum and website guides.
- Includes a wide range of artists from Mapplethorpe to Kruger, and Warhol to Sherman.
- 'A fine introduction, and stimulating to readers already familiar with the riches of American camera work.'
Professor Mick Gidley, University of Leeds. 01/06/2002
- 'What a terrific book!...Rich references to literature, history, art, and popular culture make this story come alive.'
Mary Panzer, Author of Matthew Brady and the Image of History, and former curator of Photography at the Smithsonian Institute's National Portrait Gallery. 22/07/02
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 to shock, and whether we should subscribe to the notion of a visual history.Readership: The general reader interested in all aspects of American art and culture; students and teachers of Photography, American Studies, and Communications and Media.
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Miles Orvell, Professor of English and American Studies; Director of American Studies, Temple University
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"The first coherent national treatment of American photography, its scope extends beyond previous histories. Orvell offers convincing justification for American photography in the technological, self-fashioning, realistic and democratic idiosyncrasies of both medium and nation." - Journal of American Studies
"Coverage is remarkably comprehensive ... The research apparatus of the book is excellent ... The prose is clear and engaging and at points compelling ... From his [Orvell's] best chapter on photography and society emerges a voice which is not simply descriptive but urgent." - Journal of American Studies
"consistently readable and frequently stimulating" - Burlington Magazine
"A fine introduction, and stimulating to readers already familiar with the riches of American camera work" - Professor Mick Gidley, University of Leeds. 01/06/2002
"What a terrific book!...Rich references to literature, history, art, and popular culture make this story come alive." - Mary Panzer, Author of Matthew Brady and the Image of History, and former curator of photographs for the Smithsonian Institution's National Portrait Gallery. 22/07/02
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1: Introduction
2: Presenting the Self
3: Viewing the Landscape
4: Seeing and Believing
5: A Photographic Art
6: Photography and Society
7: Versions of the Self
8: Photographing Fictions
9: Photography and the Image World
10: Conclusion: Post Photography
Timeline
Further Reading
Museums and Websites
Index
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