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American photography : a century of images / by Vicki Goldberg and Robert Silberman.

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  • ISBN: 0811826228
  • ISBN: 9780811826228
  • Physical Description: 232 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm
  • Publisher: San Francisco, Calif. : Chronicle Books, [1999]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-230) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
I. Developing Image, 1900-1934 -- Snapshot Revolution 15 -- Photography as Fine Art 21 -- Foreign Peoples, Foreign Places 30 -- Extending Vision: Science and Photography 37 -- Social Reform: The Camera as Weapon 41 -- Capturing Time: Motion Study and Social Control 50 -- Photographing the News 54 -- World War I: The Camera Goes to War 60 -- Advertising Photography 67 -- Cult of Celebrity 77 -- II. Photographic Age, 1935-1959 -- LIFE and the Rise of the Picture Magazines 89 -- Wire Services 96 -- Farm Security Administration (FSA): Documenting the Depression 99 -- MoMA, 1937: The History of Photography Comes to the Museum 104 -- World War II: Censorship and Revelation 109 -- Photographic Instant and Instant Photography 122 -- Fashion Photography 127 -- Sex and Voyeurism 134 -- Family of Man: A Heartwarming Vision for the Cold War World 139 -- Americans and the Dark Side of the 1950s 147 -- III. Photography Transformed, 1960-1999 -- Pop Art, Photography, and the Mass Media 153 -- Surveillance and the Photograph as Evidence 159 -- Civil Rights: Photography and Social Awareness 164 -- Counterculture: Changing Times, Changing Images 168 -- Vietnam: Shooting War 173 -- Portraiture: The Ideal and the All-too-Real 186 -- Photography and the Environment 197 -- New Ethnic (Self-) Representation 209 -- Postmodern Photography 216 -- Digital Revolution 223.
Subject:
Photography > United States > History > 20th century.

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