The photographic arts / John Wood.

Main entry:

Wood, John, 1947 January 2-

Title & Author:

The photographic arts / John Wood.

Publication:

Description:

xii, 191 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-191).
American destiny or manifest mythology : some historical consideration of the Western image -- The American autochrome -- The art of the cyanotype and the vandalous dreams of John Metoyer -- American symbolism : vision of spirituality and desire -- Master of European pictorialism and the problem of Alfred Stieglitz -- Past, passing, or to come : the conceptual songs of Jerry Spagnoli.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

Included in this seminal work are essays on the western American daguerreotype, contemporary daguerreotypy, the American autochrome, the art of the cyanotype, European pictorialism, and American symbolism in photography.
Wood's fresh use of the diaries and journals of gold field miners and his penetrating vision of the near extermination of indigenous peoples - "the American holocaust"--Enable him to contrast between the reality and the mythology manifested in the faces of the photographed participants.
His equally ingenious view of American symbolist photography and the primary myth to which most of this work refers, the Grail Quest, leads him to some striking conclusions in the context of "Visions of Spirituality and Desire." His survey both of the history of the cyanotype process and of a contemporary practitioner, his dissenting opinion of the controlling influence of Alfred Stieglitz on the pictorialist movement, and his groundbreaking view of the autochrome process in America are still other important and unique contributions to the field of photographic history.

ISBN:

0877455732 (alk. paper)
9780877455738 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld
Photography United States History.
Daguerreotype United States History.
Photographie États-Unis Histoire.
Daguerréotype États-Unis Histoire.
Daguerreotype.
Photography.
Daguerreotypie
Geschichte
Fotografie
Autochroomplaten.
United States.
USA.

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 134855
Call No.: ID TR23.W66; ID:97-B575
Status: Available

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