Title & Author:

Photography in print : writings from 1816 to the present / edited by Vicki Goldberg.

Publication:

New York : Published by Simon and Schuster, [1981]

Description:

570 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Series:

A Touchstone book

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The truth concerning the invention of photography: Nicéphore Niépce, his life and works / V. Fouque -- Bill presented to the Chamber of Deputies, France -- Some account of the art of photogenic drawing / William Henry Fox Talbot -- The Edinburgh Review, January, 1843 -- Mirror image: the influence of the daguerreotype on American Society / Richard Rudisill -- An historical letter / L.E. Chittenden -- Photographic pleasures / Cuthbert Bede -- A review in the London Quarterly Review / Lady Eastlake -- The stereoscope and the stereograph / Oliver Wendell Holmes -- Photography extrordinary / Lewis Carroll -- Hiawatha's photographing / Lewis Carroll -- The Salon of 1859 / Charles Baudelaire -- My life as a photographer / Nadar -- Nadar and the republic of the mind / Max Kozloff -- An apology for art-photography / Oscar G. Rejlander -- The camera and the pencil / Marcus Aurelius Root -- Various writings / John Ruskin -- Pictorial effect in photography / Henry Peach Robinson -- Illustrations of China and its people / John Thomson -- Diaries / William Henry Jackson -- Time exposure / William Henry Jackson -- Landscape permuted: from painting to photography / Barbara Novak -- Annals of my glass house / Julia Margaret Cameron -- The Photographic News, 1889 -- Naturalistic photography / Peter Henry Emerson -- The death of naturalistic photography / Peter Henry Emerson -- Interview with Mathew Brady / Geo. Alfred Townsend (Gath) -- Afield with the wet plate / Valentine Blanchard -- Is photography among the fine arts? / Joseph Pennell -- The hand camera -- its present importance / Alfred Stieglitz -- Photography as a fine art / Charles H. Caffin -- On the London exhibitions / George Bernard Shaw -- A visit to Steichen's studio / Sadakichi Hartmann -- Lewis Hine: the world of his art / Alan Trachtenberg -- The world of Atget / Berenice Abbott -- The photograph and the mental image / George Santayana -- Self portrait / Man Ray -- Alfred Stieglitz: an American seer / Dorothy Norman -- Charles Sheeler: artist in the American tradition / Constance Rourke -- The art motive in photography / Paul Strand -- Interview with Paul Strand / Milton Brown -- A life in photography / Edward Steichen -- The New York Times, March 6, 1923 -- Scoop, scandal and strife: a study of photogrpahy in newspapers / Tom Hopkinson -- Daybooks / Edward Weston -- Leaflet, written for the Los Angeles Museum / Edward Weston -- The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction / Walter Benjamin -- Has photography gone too far? / James Thurber -- From pigment to light / Lázló Moholy-Nagy -- The FSA Collection of Photographs / Roy Emerson Stryker -- Migrant mother: 1936 / Paul Taylor -- Interview with Walker Evans / Leslie Katz -- Whistler's hippopotamus / M.F. Agha -- A personal credo / Ansel Adams -- Art and technics / Lewis Mumford -- The decisive moment / Henri Cartier-Bresson -- Prints and visual coommunication / William M. Ivins, Jr. -- The light sensitive mirage / Minor White -- Statement / Minor White -- Statement / Robert Frank -- Weegee by Weegee / Weegee -- Night light: Brassai and Weegee / Colin L. Westerbeck, Jr. -- Statement / Harry Callahan -- New figures in a classic tradition / Henry Holmes Smith -- Picasso and company / Brassai -- Interview with W. Eugene Smith / Paul Hill and Thomas Cooper -- Some humanistic considerations of photography / Jerry N. Uelsmann -- On the invention of photographic meaning / Allan Sekula -- Introduction to Avedon's portraits / Harold Rosenberg -- The directorial mode / A.D. Coleman -- The man in the crowd / Leo Rubinfien -- The modern spirit / Garry Badger -- White women / Vicki Goldberg -- America, see through photographs, darkly / Susan Sontag -- The photographic message / Roland Barthes -- In our image / Wright Morris.

Summary:

This useful collection includes over a century of the very best writing on photography. Vicki Goldberg has brought together more than 75 essays and excerpts that cover a vast and provocative range of topics. We have the first-hand accounts of photographers, from Fox Talbot to Alfred Stieglitz to Ansel Adams, and the thoughts of leading critics and philosophers, from Baudelaire to George Bernard Shaw to Susan Sontag. Some of the pieces illuminate important aspects of photographic history; others give unique insights in particular photographers; and some are just for fun. Together, they offer a lively approach to the history, art, and philosophy of photography.

Resources:
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ISBN:

0671250345
9780671250348
0671250353 (pbk)
9780671250355 (pbk)

Subject:

Photography.
Photographie.
21.40 photographic art: general.
Fotografie.
1816-1981

Added entries:

Goldberg, Vicki.
Touchstone book.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 286235
Call No.: BIB 226449
Status: Available