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Condition: Good: A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including ... Good: A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including scuff marks, but no holes or tears. The dust jacket for hard covers may not be included. Binding has minimal wear. The majority of pages are undamaged with minimal creasing or tearing, minimal pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text, no writing in margins. No missing pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab

ISBN: 9781931788601

Book Title: Augustus F. Sherman : Ellis Island Portraits 1905-1920

Item Length: 10.9in

Publisher: Aperture Foundation, Incorporated

Publication Year: 2005

Format: Hardcover

Language: English

Item Height: 0.8in

Author: Augustus F. Sherman

Genre: Photography, Art

Topic: Individual Artists / General, General

Item Width: 9.6in

Item Weight: 39.1 Oz

Number of Pages: 144 Pages

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Throughout his tenure as a registry clerk with the Immigration Division of Ellis Island, Augustus F. Sherman systematically photographed more than 200 families, groups, and individuals while they were being held by customs for special investigations. This volume provides an essential revaluation of Sherman's striking portraits, which predate August Sander's cataloging efforts by several years. A historical document of unprecedented worth, "Augustus F. Sherman: Ellis Island Portraits" includes almost 100 portraits taken from 1905 through 1920. The subjects are frequently dressed in elaborate national costumes or folk dress, emphasizing the variety and richness of the cultural heritage that came together to form the United States. Romanian shepherds, German stowaways, Russian vegetarians, Greek priests and Ghanaian women in elaborately patterned dresses, are treated with equal gravitas. The resulting body of work presents a unique and powerful picture of the stream of immigrants who came through Ellis Island. In its time, the material contributed to the larger project of ethnographic categorization and typology typical of the early twentieth century, much as Edward S. Curtis's portraits romanticized the "last Indians" or John Thomson's "Street Life in London" identified and codified social class in the late 1800s. Though originally taken for his own personal study, Sherman's work appeared in the public eye as illustrations for publications with titles such as "Alien or American," and hung on the walls of the custom offices as cautionary or exemplary models of the new American species. In this book, Peter Mesenhöller, Research Associate with the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum of Anthropology in Cologne, Germany, provides new critical context and analysis of this rich collection, but also addresses the individual images as powerful, engaging photographs created by a master portraitist. The publication is accompanied by a traveling exhibition that will open at the Ellis Island Immigration Museum in the summer of 2005.

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Publisher

Aperture Foundation, Incorporated

ISBN-10

193178860x

ISBN-13

9781931788601

eBay Product ID (ePID)

24038761413

Product Key Features

Book Title

Augustus F. Sherman : Ellis Island Portraits 1905-1920

Author

Augustus F. Sherman

Format

Hardcover

Language

English

Topic

Individual Artists / General, General

Publication Year

2005

Genre

Photography, Art

Number of Pages

144 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length

10.9in

Item Height

0.8in

Item Width

9.6in

Item Weight

39.1 Oz

Additional Product Features

Number of Volumes

1 Vol.

Lc Classification Number

Tr681.I54

2005

Target Audience

Trade

Lccn

2004-115850

Dewey Decimal

779.93059069120973

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Illustrated

Yes

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