American Photography (Oxford History of Art)

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Author: Miles Orvell
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Category: Book

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Media: Paperback
Pages: 256
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.4 x 0.6

ISBN: 0192842714
Dewey Decimal Number: 770.973
EAN: 9780192842718
ASIN: 0192842714

Publication Date: July 10, 2003
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Product Description
150 years of American photography come alive in this exciting new book, placing it in its cultural context for the first time. Orvell examines this fascinating subject through a wide range of well known and less-well known images. He ranges from portraiture and landscape photography, family albums and memory, and analyses the particularly 'American' way in which American photographers have viewed the world around them.
Orvell combines a clear overview of the changing nature of photographic thinking and practice in this period with an exploration of key concepts. The result is the first coherent history of American photography, which examines issues such as the nature of photographic exploitation, experimental techniques, the power of the photograph to shock, and whether we should subscribe to the notion of a visual history.