Seizing the Light : A Social History of Photography
ISBN: 9780073379210 | 0073379212
Edition: 2ndFormat: Paperback
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Pub. Date: 12/9/2008
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Seizing the Light: A Social History of Photographyprovides a thought-provoking, accurate, and accessible introduction to the photographic arts for all readers. With stunning images and commentary by hundreds of international artists, the text clearly and concisely provides the building blocks necessary to critically explore photographic history from the photographers' eye, an aesthetic point of view.
| Preface | |
| Advancing toward Photography: The Birth of Modernity | |
| A Desire for Visual Representation Perspective Thinking of Photography Camera Vision | |
| The Demand for Picturemaking Systems Proto-Photographers: Chemical Action of Light Modernity: New Visual Realities Optical Devices | |
| Images through Light: A Struggle for Permanence Other Distinct Originators | |
| The Daguerreotype: Image and Object What Is a Daguerr... MORE | |
| The Daguerreotype Comes to America The Early Practitioners Early Daguerrean Portrait Making Technical Improvements | |
| Expanding U.S. Portrait Studios | |
| The Art of the Daguerrean Portrait Daguerrean Portrait Galleries and Picture Factories African-American Operators Rural Practice Post-Mortem Portraits | |
| The Daguerreotype and the Landscape | |
| The Daguerreotype and Science | |
| Calotype Rising: The Arrival of Photography | |
| The Calotype Early Calotype Activity Calotypists Establish a Practice Calotype and Architecture: Mission Heliographique | |
| The End of the Calotype and the Future of Photography | |
| Pictures on Glass: The Wet-Plate Process | |
| The Albumen Process The New Transparent Look | |
| The Ambrotype Pictures on Tin The Carte-de-Visite and the Photo Album The Cabinet Photograph: The Picture Gets Bigger | |
| The Studio Tradition Retouching and Enlargements | |
| The Stereoscope | |
| The Stereo Craze | |
| Prevailing Events/Picturing Calamity Current Events Early War Coverage | |
| The American Civil War How Photographs Were Circulated | |
| A New Medium of Communication Photography: Art or Industry? | |
| Discovering a Photographic Language Americans and the Art of Nature Positivism | |
| Standardizing the Practice: A Transparent Truth Mechanical Photography | |
| The Traveling Camera Picturing Industrialization Urban Life | |
| The American West: The Narrative and the Sublime | |
| New Ways of Visualizing Time and Space | |
| The Inadequacy of Human Vision Locomotion Transforming Aesthetics: Technical Breakthroughs | |
| The Hand-Held Camera and the Snapshot Time and Motion as an Extended Continuum Moving Pictures Color and Photography | |
| Suggesting the Subject: The Evolution of Pictorialism Roots of Pictorialism Pictorialism and Naturalism | |
| The Development of Pictorial Effect | |
| The Secession Movement and the Rise of Photography Clubs | |
| The Aesthetic Club Movement Working Pictorially: A Variety of Approaches American Perspectives | |
| The Photo-Secession | |
| The Decadent Movement and Tonalism Women Pictorialists | |
| The Pictorial Epoch/The Stieglitz Group | |
| The Decline of Pictorialism | |
| Modernism's Innovations Industrial Beauty Cubism High and Low Art Futurism Time, Movement, and the Machine Towards a Modern Practice: Distilling Form Dada Exploring Space and Time: The Return of the Photogram Surrealism Collage Suprematism Art, Technology, and a New Faith Paul Strand and Straight Photography: Purity of Use | |
| The New Culture of Light Teaching Modernism: The American Impulse Stieglitz's "Equivalents" Steichen Goes Commercial Form as Essence Straight, Modernistic Photography Film und Foto and New Objectivity Experimentally Modern New Vision Pathways of Light: Time, Space, and Form Surrealistic Themes | |
| Social Documents An American Urge: Social Uplift Ethnological Approaches Emerging Ethnic Consciousness | |
| The Physiognomic Approach The Great Depression: The Economics of Photography | |
| The FAP Project: Changing New York | |
| The Photo Booth: Self-Portraits for All Mass Observation | |
| The Film and Photo League | |
| Nabbing Time Anticipating the Moment | |
| From Halftones to Bytes Pictures and Printers Ink Th | |
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