Main entry:

Hallmark Photographic Collection.

Title & Author:

An American century of photography : from dry-plate to digital / the Hallmark Photographic Collection ; Keith F. Davis ; foreword by Donald J. Hall.

Publication:

New York : Hallmark Cards, Inc. in association with H.N. Abrams, 1995.

Description:

423 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm

Notes:
"Exhibition accompanying this volume will be shown at a number of major museums in 1994-96, including the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri"--Preface.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- I. A Reluctant Modernism: 1885-1915 -- A New Age -- Art and Photography -- The Generation of 1902 -- II. Abstraction and Realism: 1915-1940 -- "A World Bursting with New Ideas" -- Purism and Pictorialism -- The New Vision -- American Documents -- The Triumph of Photography -- III. From Public to Private Concerns: 1940-1965 -- In the Shadow of War -- From Document to Metaphor -- Multitude, Solitude -- Art and Commerce -- New Perspectives: Into the '60s -- IV. The Image Transformed 1965-Present -- The Photography Boom -- A New Pluralism -- Art and Photography -- Themes and Variations: Photography at the Century's End -- Coda: The Digital Revolution -- Endnotes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Also issued online.

Summary:

An American Century of Photography represents the first comprehensive study of this vast and important subject from the mid-1880s to the present. Lavishly illustrated, and printed to the highest technical standards in both tritone and color, this authoritative volume presents a significantly new perspective on the history of American photography that will be of interest to general audiences and scholars alike. Based largely on photography's own literature and supplemented with detailed source notes, this book emphasizes the relationships between individuals and aesthetic movements, and the intellectual and cultural climate in which artists work. Together, the images and text of this volume constitute both an introduction to, and an exploration of, the most vital age of American photography. This era began just over a century ago with the advent of the dry-plate and the hand camera; now, in the mid-1990s photography is in the midst of another revolution, one brought on by the impact of the computer. An American Century of Photography documents this remarkable evolution through a detailed discussion of leading photographers and the reproduction of a great variety of images, from such famous works as Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother to many that were previously little known or unpublished. The variety of this selection will greatly expand understanding of the complexities and riches of American photography. In addition, this volume takes a broad view of its subject by including important European artists who emigrated to the United States in the 1930s, such as Andre Kertesz, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, and others.

ISBN:

0810919648
9780810919648
0875297013 (pbk.)
9780875297019 (pbk.)

Subject:

Hallmark Photographic Collection Exhibitions.
Hallmark Photographic Collection Expositions.
Hallmark Photographic Collection
Photography United States History 19th century Exhibitions.
Photography United States History 20th century Exhibitions.
Photographie États-Unis Histoire 19e siècle Expositions.
Photographie États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle Expositions.
21.42 history of photographic art.
Photography
Fotografie
Photographie États-Unis 19e siècle Catalogues d'exposition.
Photographie États-Unis 20e siècle Catalogues d'exposition.
United States
USA

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogues.
Exhibition catalogs.
exhibition catalogs.
History
Exhibitions (form)
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Davis, Keith F., 1952-
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 320328
Call No.: 320328
Notes: 174762
Status: Available