Miles Orvell

Photography in America Miles Orvell

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-232) and index. Table of Contents: Each chapter ends with Key Terms and Key Names. PrefaceTimeline1. Introduction: Understanding Photography Evolution of the CameraTECHNIQUES, FORMATS, AND EQUIPMENT--Pinhole PhotographyTECHNIQUES, FORMATS, AND EQUIPMENT--The Daguerreotype and AmbrotypeTECHNIQUES, FORMATS, AND EQUIPMENT--Wet Plate to Dry PlatePhotography and the Other ArtsHow to Read a PhotographWriting about PhotographyTECHNIQUES, FORMATS, AND EQUIPMENT--The Parts of a CameraI. THE NINETEENTH CENTURY 2. Presenting the Self: The Portrait TECHNIQUES, FORMATS, AND EQUIPMENT--Photographic FormatsThe Private PortraitTECHNIQUES, FORMATS, AND EQUIPMENT--Albumen and Gelatin PrintingThe Public PortraitThe Scientific PortraitTECHNIQUES, FORMATS, AND EQUIPMENT--The Mug ShotThe Portrait in the Twentieth CenturyMOVEMENTS AND TRENDS--George Eastman and the Growth of Amateur PhotographyThe Portrait in the Twentieth Century3. Viewing the Landscape MOVEMENTS AND TRENDS--Approaches to Landscape PhotographyView PhotographyTECHNIQUES, FORMATS, AND EQUIPMENTPanoramaTECHNIQUES, FORMATS, AND EQUIPMENTThe StereographThe Survey PhotographLIVES IN PHOTOGRAPHY--O'Sullivan and JacksonThe Aesthetic LandscapeMOVEMENTS AND TRENDS--Rephotographing the WestAnsel AdamsMOVEMENTS AND TRENDS--Group f.644. Seeing and Believing: Photography as Documentary Photography in the Civil WarMOVEMENTS AND TRENDS--War PhotographyPhotography in the Popular PressLIVES IN PHOTOGRAPHY--Eadweard MuybridgeTECHNIQUES, FORMATS, AND EQUIPMENT--Fine Art Printing: From Calotype to PhotogravureRiis, Hine, and Social Documentary PhotographyMOVEMENTS AND TRENDS--Lewis Wickes Hine's Promotion of "Photography in the School"The Information Environment5. A Photographic Art 71 PictorialismThe Photo-SecessionMOVEMENTS AND TRENDS--Photo-SecessionAlfred StieglitzLIVES IN PHOTOGRAPHYStieglitz and Camera WorkMOVEMENTS AND TRENDSCubism and PhotographyPaul StrandLIVES IN PHOTOGRAPHYAlfred Stieglitz (1864-1946)and Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986) MOVEMENTS AND TRENDS 85--Neue SachlichkeitModern Photography: Abstraction Versus the ObjectTECHNIQUES, FORMATS, AND EQUIPMENT--The Cyanotype and the PhotogramEdward WestonModernism After World War IIII. The Twentieth Century 6. Photography and Society Documentary in the 1930sThe Farm Security AdministrationMOVEMENTS AND TRENDS--The Documentary Photo BookPicture MagazinesLIVES IN PHOTOGRAPHY--WeegeeThe Family of ManRobert FrankStreet PhotographyExposing the Other AmericaTECHNIQUES, FORMATS, AND EQUIPMENT--Large-Format CamerasAmerica Seen from the OutsidePhotographing Urban Decay: Vergara and MooreAmerica in a Global Context7. Photography as Life Narrative The Autobiographical Mode: Family AlbumsLIVES IN PHOTOGRAPHY--Novak's Collected Visions, a Global Family AlbumTransforming the Family SnapshotExpanding the Self-PortraitTECHNIQUES, FORMATS, AND EQUIPMENT--Photo BoothMOVEMENTS AND TRENDS--Mapplethorpe and the Culture WarsLetting the Subject SpeakDefining CommunitiesMOVEMENTS AND TRENDS--Motorcycles and the Open RoadDiane ArbusNan Goldin and Catherine Opie8. African Americans and Photography BeginningsThe Universal Exposition in Paris in 1900Photography in the Harlem RenaissanceThe 1930s and 1940sMOVEMENTS AND TRENDS--Richard Wright's 12 Million Black VoicesPhotography and Civil RightsDeCarava and KamoingeContemporary Black PhotographersMOVEMENTS AND TRENDS--KamoingeIII. Contemporary Photography 9. Contemporary Landscape Photography The Sublime TraditionConceptual LandscapesThe Man-Altered LandscapeMOVEMENTS AND TRENDS--The New TopographicsAerial Photography: The Man-Altered Landscape Seen from the AirTECHNIQUES, FORMAT, AND EQUIPMENT--Aerial PhotographyThe Landscape of Destruction10. Bearing Witness Iconic ImagesWar PhotographyTECHNIQUES, FORMATS, AND EQUIPMENT--The Leica Camera/35 mm FormatVietnamMOVEMENTS AND TRENDS--Magnum PhotosMOVEMENTS AND TRENDS--The Vietnam War and American CultureDocumenting the UnthinkableThe Iraqi WarsAtomic PhotographyNatural Disasters11. Photography and the Image World Photography and Consumer CultureTECHNIQUES, FORMATS, AND EQUIPMENT--Industrial PhotographyCelebrityFame and InfamyTECHNIQUES, FORMATS, AND EQUIPMENT--Clandestine PhotographyThe Postmodern World of ImagesMedia Imagery as Found ArtTECHNIQUES, FORMATS, AND EQUIPMENT--Appropriating ImagesContemporary Photography and the Archive12. Photographing Fictions A. D. Coleman: Revising the History of PhotographyMOVEMENTS AND TRENDS--Photographing Ghosts and SpiritsEarly Creative PhotographyDuane MichalsMOVEMENTS AND TRENDS--Surrealism and Contemporary PhotographyJoel-Peter Witkin and Andres SerranoCindy ShermanConstructing Scenes, Fabricating ImagesGregory Crewdson and Jeff Wall13. Conclusion: Digital Truth TECHNIQUES, FORMATS, AND EQUIPMENTDigital CamerasBiographiesGlossaryMuseums and WebsitesIndexReview Quotes:"This text is accessible even to students who have little or no background in the field. I am especially fond of the combination of chronological and thematic styles."--Jillian M. Duquaine-Watson, University of Texas at Dallas"Excellent illustrations. Great design. Sharp writing. Photography in America is an excellent textbook."--Marc Tasman, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee"Photography in America covers canonical photographers and movements. It is perfect for my needs."--Walter Metz, Southern Illinois UniversityBiographical Note: Miles Orvell is Professor of English and American studies at Temple University; and affiliated Professor of Art History, Tyler School of Art (Temple). He is the prize-winning author of The Real Thing: Imitation and Authenticity in American Culture, 1880-1940, which appeared in a twenty-fifth anniversary edition in 2014. He is also the author of After the Machine: Visual Arts and the Erasing of Cultural Boundaries (1995); John Vachon's America: Photographs and Letters from the Depression to World War II (2003); and The Death and Life of Main Street: Small Towns in American Memory, Space, and Community (2012). Orvell served as Editor in Chief of the Encyclopedia of American Studies Online, published by Johns Hopkins University Press, from 2004 to 2011. In 2009, he received the Bode-Pearson Prize for lifetime achievement, awarded by the American Studies Association. Review Citations: Library Journal 10/01/2003 pg. 72 (EAN 9780192842718, Paperback) Contributor Bio:  Orvell, Miles Miles Orvell is professor of English and American studies at Temple University. He is author of several books, including "American Photography" and "The Real Thing: Imitation and Authenticity in American Culture, 1880-1940".