Marien, Mary Warner, author.
Photography and its critics : a cultural history, 1839-1900 / Mary Warner Marien.
Cambridge, U.K. ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1997.
xvi, 222 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Cambridge perspectives on photography
Photography and Its Critics offers an original overview of nineteenth-century American and European writing about photography from such disparate fields as art theory, social reform, and physiology. The earliest criticism of the invention was informed by an ample legacy of notions about objectivity, appearances, and copying. Received ideas about neutral vision, intuitive genius, and progress in art also shaped nineteenth-century understanding of photography. In this study, Mary Warner Marien argues that photography was an important social and cultural symbol for modernity and change in several fields, such as art and social reform. Moreover, she demonstrates how photography quickly emerged as a pliant symbol for modernity and change, one that could as easily oppose progress as promote democracy.
0521550432 (hc)
9780521550437 (hc)
Photographic criticism United States History 19th century.
Photographic criticism Europe History 19th century.
Photography Philosophy History 19th century.
Critique photographique États-Unis Histoire 19e siècle.
Critique photographique Europe Histoire 19e siècle.
Photographie Histoire Philosophie 19e siècle.
Photographie Philosophie Histoire 19e siècle.
Photographic criticism.
Photography Philosophy.
Fotografie.
Kunstkritiek.
Culturele aspecten.
Europe.
United States.
History.
Cambridge perspectives on photography.
Location: Library main 191576
Call No.: ID TR187.M37; ID:97-B255
Status: Available
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