Main entry:

Henisch, Heinz K., author.

Title & Author:

The photographic experience, 1839-1914 : images and attitudes / Heinz K. Henisch and Bridget A. Henisch.

Publication:

University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, [1994]
©1994

Description:

x, 462 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- A new invention -- A new word -- Photographist in charge -- The iconographer -- Master of make-believe -- The magician -- The memory-maker -- Sidelights -- Culinary dimensions -- Fashion in focus -- Fictions and fancies -- Musical moments -- Mixed media -- The engraver -- The retoucher -- The overpainter -- Other links -- Setting and frame -- Cases of character -- Presentation, private and public -- Under cover -- Family milestones -- For love's sake -- Landmarks -- 'Til death do us part -- The heliographer's arms -- Age-old words and symbols -- Foreign approaches -- Cosmic purity and hi-tech -- Double-dipping -- Playing the public -- Securing the shadow -- Advertising and publicity -- Catching the eye -- The cult of celebrity -- Humor -- Magic, old and new -- Contraptions, infernal -- Vanity, oh vanity -- Harebrained genius and flirtatious fringe -- The worm turns -- Camera in court -- Opening skirmishes -- Forensic focus -- The impressionable eye -- Plagiarism, pretensions, and pretense -- Photographs as corpora delicti and evidence -- The photographically illustrated book -- The versatile medium -- Books of distinction ; examples of choice -- Politics on a plate -- Business as usual -- The establishment -- The challengers -- Shades of opinion -- The cutting edge -- The camera at war -- The military response -- Civilian cameramen -- Portraits -- Views -- On the sidelines -- The molding of minds -- Photography and travel -- Rail, steam, and lens -- Pleasing prospects -- The photographer in place -- The peripatetic camera -- The amateur's adventures -- Armchair travels -- The trivialization of travel -- Photography in the writer's world -- First impressions -- Second thoughts -- Before and behind the camera -- In the study.

Summary:

Eighteen thirty-nine was the miraculous year in which the two principal inventors of photography - Daguerre in France and Fox Talbot in Great Britain - made their discoveries known to an eager and receptive public. News of the process flashed around the globe, and in no time, enthusiastic pioneers from Auckland to Zanzibar were trying the new invention. Photography took root and flourished. It has since been used in a thousand ways and has changed our modes of perception in many more. The Photographic Experience deals with episodes and issues relating to the spread and practice of photography from its beginnings to World War I. Bridget and Heinz Henisch concern themselves with the reception accorded to the new art by professionals, amateurs, and the general public. They examine reactions to the new invention in the press, literature, poetry, music, and fashion; the response of intellectuals and painters; and the beliefs held by prominent photographers concerning the nature of the medium and its mission. With a wide array of images - many never before published - they illustrate the photograph's use as a record of public and private moments in life. Photography became quickly and thoroughly interwoven with the fabric of society and human experience, and its history comprises much more than the story of photographic art and its creators. The authors examine photographic ephemera and humor, photography and the law, the photographic studio experience, photography and travel, photography and journalism with special attention to advertising and war, the role of photography in politics, photographically illustrated books, the practice of overpainting, photography in the hands of the scholar, and the presentation and use of photographs in their social milieu.

ISBN:

0271009306 (hardcover ; acid-free paper)
9780271009308 (hardcover ; acid-free paper)

Subject:

Photography History.
Portrait photography History.
Photographie Histoire.
Portraits (Photographie) Histoire.
Portrait photography.
Photography.
Fotografie
Geschichte 1839-1914.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Henisch, Bridget Ann, author.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 111113
Call No.: ID TR15.H46; ID:94-B694
Status: Available