Main entry:

Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer.

Title & Author:

A talent for detail : the photographs of Miss Frances Benjamin Johnston, 1889-1910 / by Pete Daniel and Raymond Smock.

Publication:

New York : Harmony Books, [1974]
©1974

Description:

10 unnumbered pages, 182 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 22 x 28 cm

Notes:
"All photographs ... from the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C."--[1] page at beginning
Includes index.
A photobiography -- The documentary eye. America at work : Uncle Sam's money ; Through the coal country with a camera ; The iron men ; Women workers -- National heroes : Get Dewey, Dewey, Dewey! ; Assassination! -- Come to the fair : World's Columbian Exposition ; Louisiana Purchase Exposition -- School days : Washington, D.C. schools ; Hampton Institute and black life in Virginia ; Carlisle Indian School ; Tuskegee Institute -- Two natural wonders : Mammoth Cave by flashlight ; Yellowstone by stagecoach -- An American gallery.

Summary:

"Her portrait work immortalized Susan B. Anthony, Joel Chandler Harris, Mark Twain, the Roosevelts, George Washington Carver, Alexander Graham Bell, Booker T. Washington, Admiral Dewey, President McKinley and many others. Women workers, coal miners, iron men, blacks, Indians, students and world expositions are the subjects of her photo-essays. Independent and successful, Frances Benjamin Johnston produced numerous self-portraits, documenting her unconventional life during the gilded age of post-Victorian America. A Talent for Detail is an historical record of America from 1889-1910; a gallery of the famous and the common people of that time, and a photobiography of an extraordinarily gifted woman."--Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

051751642X
9780517516423

Subject:

Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952.
Portrait photography.
Documentary photography.
Portraits (Photographie)
Photographie documentaire.
documentary photography.
Photographers United States.
Photography History Sources.
Photography.
Johnston, Frances Benjamin 1864-1952

Form/genre:

Biography
photobooks.
Photobooks
Biographies
Livres de photographies.

Added entries:

Daniel, Pete, author.
Smock, Raymond W., author.
Harmony Books (Firm), publisher.
Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division.
United States New York (State) New York,

Holdings:

Location: Library main 186432
Call No.: ID TR140.J64.A34; ID:87-B6975
Status: Available