| Description |
x, 472 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm |
| Contents |
8. The modern movement / Robert Shapazian -- "A new instrument of vision" (1932) / Lázló Moholy-Nagy -- 9. European documentary styles / Ben Lifson -- "The decisive moment" (1952) / Henri Cartier-Bresson -- 10. American documentary styles / Anne Tucker -- "Photography" / Walker Evans -- 11. The inner vision / Ben Lifson -- Memorable fancies" (1952, 1957) / Minor White -- 12. British contemporaries / Mark Haworth-Booth -- "Ray Moore Talking" (1981) / Ray Moore -- 13. Scenes of conflict / David Mellor -- Slightly out of focus (1947) / Robert Capa -- 14. Figures of style / David Mellor -- "World without men" (1984) / Helmut Newton -- 15. Construction and appropriation / Chris Titterington -- "Photographic practice and theory" (1974) / Victor Burgin -- Glossary --- Artists' biographies and list of works in the exhibition -- Select bibliography |
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Foreword -- Lender to the exhibition -- Acknowledgments -- Photographic acknowledgments -- Introduction / Daniel Wolf -- Chronology / Anne Hammond -- Prologue The picture as photograph / Mike Weaver -- 1. The pencil of nature / Beaumont Newhall -- "The magic mirror" (1830) / Henry Fox Talbot -- 2. The nineteenth-century portrait / Will Stapp -- "Annals of my glass house" (1874) / Julia Margaret Cameron -- 3. Early French masters / Ben Lifson -- "Photography in France" (1852) / Roger Fenton -- 4. Le Gray -- Fenton -- Watkins / Mike Weaver -- "The relation between photography and painting" (1860) / Philip Gilbert Hamerton -- 5. Travel / Robert A. Sobieszek -- "The art of photography" (1860) / Francis Frith -- 6. Pictorial effect / Peter C . Bunnell -- "On the possibility of new laws of compositions" (1910) / Sadakichi Hartmann -- 7. "An American place" / Mike Weaver -- "America and photography" (1929) / Edward Weston |
| Analysis |
Photography history |
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Photography, history |
| Notes |
At bottom of title: "Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, Royal Academy of Arts, London" |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 472 |
| Subject |
Photography -- History -- Exhibitions.
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Photography -- History -- 19th century.
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Photography -- History -- 20th century.
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Photography, Artistic -- Exhibitions.
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Photography, Artistic -- History.
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| Genre/Form |
Exhibition catalogs.
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| Author |
Weaver, Mike, editor
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Australian National Gallery, issuing body
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Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, issuing body
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Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain), issuing body
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| LC no. |
88028032 |
| ISBN |
0300044577 |
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