Main entry:

Marien, Mary Warner.

Title & Author:

Photography : a cultural history / Mary Warner Marien.

Publication:

London : Laurence King, 2002.

Description:

xv, 528 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 30 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Ch. 1. The Origins of Photography (to 1839) -- Before Photography -- The Invention of "Photographies" -- Responses to the Announcement of the Daguerreotype -- The Politics of Invention -- Philosophy and Practice: Nature's Automatic Writing -- Ch. 2. The Second Invention of Photography (1839-1854) -- The Second Invention -- Photography and the Sciences -- Recording Events with the Camera -- War and Photography -- Expeditionary and Travel Photography -- Portraiture and the Camera -- Photography and Fiction -- Philosophy and Practice: A Threat to Art? -- Ch. 3. The Expanding Domain (1854-1880) -- The Stereograph -- War and Photography -- Topographical Surveys and Photography -- Photography and Science -- Photography and the Social Sciences -- Art and Photography -- Women Behind the Camera -- Philosophy and Practice: "Superseded by Reality" -- Ch. 4. Photography in the Modern Age (1880-1918) -- The Challenge for Art Photography -- Pictorialism -- Photography and the Modern City -- Science and Photography -- Photography, Social Science, and Exploration -- War and Photography -- Philosophy and Practice: The Real Thing -- Ch. 5. A New Vision (1918-1945) -- Revolutionary Art: The Soviet Photograph -- Dada and After -- Surrealist Photography -- Experimental Photography and Advertising -- California Modern -- Social Science, Social Change, and the Camera -- Popular Science -- World War II -- Philosophy and Practice: The "Common Man" and the End of Media Utopia -- Ch. 6. Through the Lens of Culture (1945-1975) -- The Family of Man -- Cultural Relativism and Cultural Resistance -- The West and the Cold War -- Photography in Art -- Philosophy and Practice: Photography "Born Whole" -- Ch. 7. Convergences (1975-Present) -- The Predicaments of Social Concern -- Neutral Vision -- The Look of Politics -- The Postmodern Era -- Family Pictures -- Nature and the Body Politic -- Philosophy and Practice: The Passing of the Postmodern -- Epilogue: On Beauty, Science, and Nature.

Summary:

"Organized into chronological timeframes of approximately fifteen to forty years, each chapter examines photography through the lenses of art, science, social science, travel, war, fashion, the mass media, and individual practitioners. Alongside these broad topics, the author seamlessly leads the reader through the most significant themes particular to the medium, including the nature of invention, the effect of mass media on morality, the use of imagery as a tool of Western colonialism, and the role of the photograph in advertising, radical politics, and family life."--Jacket.

ISBN:

1856692884
9781856692885
1856692892 (pbk.)
9781856692892 (pbk.)

Subject:

Photography History.
Photographie Histoire.
Photography.
Fotografie
Geschichte
Kultur
Kunst
Cultuurgeschiedenis.

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 228546
Call No.: TR15 .M37 2002
Status: Available