Photography and Its Critics - A Cultural History, 1839-1900

Klappentext A study of nineteenth-century American and European writing about photography. Zusammenfassung First published in 1997! Photography and its Critics offers an 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The origins of photographic discourse; 2. Photography and the modern in nineteenth-century thought; 3. Art, photography and society; 4. Forced to be free: photography, literacy, and mass culture; 5. The lure of modernity; Epilogue: ghosts: photography and the modern; Bibliographic survey.

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• Authors: Mary Warner Marien, Mary Warner (Syracuse University Marien, Marien Mary Warner
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.05.1997
• EAN: 9780521550437
• ISBN: 978-0-521-55043-7
• No. of pages: 242
• Series: Perspectives on Photography; Perspectives on Photography
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Photography & photographs, PHOTOGRAPHY / General, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Photography and photographs