Main entry:

Garner, Gretchen.

Title & Author:

Disappearing witness : change in twentieth-century American photography / Gretchen Garner.

Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003.

Description:

xix, 305 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Being there : spontaneous witness -- Speed and the machine -- Fine-art photography, redefined -- Documentary -- The magazines -- Spirit in photography -- New paradigms : Uelsmann, Michals, and Samaras -- Documentary-style and street photography -- Photography about photography : the academy and the art world -- New landscapes, new portraits : the seventies and eighties -- The subject self -- Arrangement, invention, and appropriation -- Digitized photography.

Summary:

"In Disappearing Witness, photographer and art historian Gretchen Garner chronicles the transformation, from the introduction of the 35-millimeter camera in the 1920s to the digital photography of today. Accompanied by over 125 key works in the history of photography - fine-art, documentary, and editorial - her thoughtful and enlightening discussion traces American photography's aesthetic, commercial, and technological changes, as the medium's primary role of spontaneous witness gradually gave way to contrived arrangement and artistic invention."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

0801871670
9780801871672

Subject:

Photography United States History 20th century.
Photography.
Fotografie
United States.
USA.

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 232854
Call No.: TR23 .G37 2003
Status: Available