Main entry:

Newhall, Beaumont.

Title & Author:

The history of photography : from 1839 to the present day / Beaumont Newhall.

Edition:

Rev. and enl. ed.

Publication:

New York : Museum of Modern Art, 1964.

Description:

1 volume

Notes:
Text first published in the exhibition catalog Photography, 1839-1937 by the Museum of Modern Art in 1937. In 1938 the text and ill. were reprinted with minor revisions as Photography: a short critical history.
Foreword -- The elusive image -- The mirror with a memory -- Prints from paper -- Portraits for the million -- Pictorial effect -- The faithful witness: Expeditionary photography: Gardner, Russell, O'Sullivan, Jackson in America -- The conquest of action -- Photography as an art -- Straight photography -- Documentary -- Instant vision -- The quest for form -- For the printed page -- In color -- Recent trends.
Illustrations: John Wesley Powell, first to navigate the Grand Canyon of the Colorado [River], with Tau-Gu, Great Chief of the Pai-Utes [Paiutes], c1872 / John K. Hillers -- Meeting of the rails, Promontory Point, Utah, 1869 / Hart -- Union Pacific Railroad, west of Cheyenne, Wyoming, 1869 / Russell -- Sand dunes near Sand Springs, Nevada, 1867 / Timothy H. O'Sullivan -- Canyon de Chelley, Arizona, 1873 / Timothy H. O'Sullivan -- Old Faithful geyser, Yellowstone National Park, 1872 / William Henry Jackson -- Buffalo Bill, 1889 [Cody in Winchester shot on white horse] / stereograph by unknown American photographer -- Migrant mother, Nipomo, California, 1936 / Dorothea Lange -- Father and son walking in the face of a dust storm, Cimaron [Cimarron?] County, Oklahoma, 1936 / Arthur Rothstein.

ISBN:

0870703577

Subject:

Photography History.
Photographie Histoire.
Photography.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Museum of Modern Art (N.Y.)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 7982
Call No.: ID:87-B21136
Status: Available