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The Changing Face of Portrait Photography: From Daguerreotype to Digital
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Product Group
- Book
- Type
- Picture Book
- Features
- Dust Jacket
- Original Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- Inscribed
- No
- Weight
- 2 lbs
- IsTextBook
- No
- Vintage
- No
- ISBN
- 9781588342744
- Book Title
- Changing Face of Portrait Photography : from Daguerreotype to Digital
- Publisher
- Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press
- Item Length
- 11.3 in
- Publication Year
- 2011
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.9 in
- Genre
- Photography
- Topic
- Subjects & Themes / Portraits & Selfies, General, History
- Item Weight
- 41.3 Oz
- Item Width
- 8.8 in
- Number of Pages
- 176 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press
ISBN-10
1588342743
ISBN-13
9781588342744
eBay Product ID (ePID)
92540050
Product Key Features
Book Title
Changing Face of Portrait Photography : from Daguerreotype to Digital
Number of Pages
176 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Subjects & Themes / Portraits & Selfies, General, History
Publication Year
2011
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Photography
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
41.3 Oz
Item Length
11.3 in
Item Width
8.8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2011-014666
Dewey Edition
23
TitleLeading
The
Reviews
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY Perich, associate curator of the Smithsonian's Photographic History Collection, looks at how photographic subjects, techniques, uses, and approaches have changed from the mid-19th to the 21st century by studying nine iconic photographers: Juliet Margaret Cameron, Dorothea Lange, Richard Avedon, George K. Warren, Gertrude Käsebier, Nicholas Murray, Henry Horenstein, Lauren Greenfield, and Robert Weingarten. Perich's fine introduction notes how photographs represents "a complex balance of culture, technology, artistic intention, personal and consumer use, and historical context." She explores these factors in essays on each photographer, providing biographical information that proves particularly helpful in parsing the images. Of Lange, for example, she suggests that the photographer's empathy for the Depression-era poor was partly based on her own suffering-she was stricken by polio as a child and was deeply scarred by her father's desertion of the family. While one can argue with Perich's choices-why no W. Eugene Smith or Diane Arbus?-she has unquestionably produced an important, well-written, and aesthetically pleasing work. (Oct.), PUBLISHERS WEEKLY Perich, associate curator of the Smithsonian's Photographic History Collection, looks at how photographic subjects, techniques, uses, and approaches have changed from the mid-19th to the 21st century by studying nine iconic photographers: Juliet Margaret Cameron, Dorothea Lange, Richard Avedon, George K. Warren, Gertrude Käsebier, Nicholas Murray, Henry Horenstein, Lauren Greenfield, and Robert Weingarten. Perich's fine introduction notes how photographs represents "a complex balance of culture, technology, artistic intention, personal and consumer use, and historical context." She explores these factors in essays on each photographer, providing biographical information that proves particularly helpful in parsing the images. Of Lange, for example, she suggests that the photographer's empathy for the Depression-era poor was partly based on her own suffering--she was stricken by polio as a child and was deeply scarred by her father's desertion of the family. While one can argue with Perich's choices--why no W. Eugene Smith or Diane Arbus?--she has unquestionably produced an important, well-written, and aesthetically pleasing work. (Oct.) CHOICE Drawing from the rich, vast photographic collection of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History, associate curator Perich surveys the history of portrait photography, and in so doing also offers a broader history of photography. Beginning with the daguerreotype and ending with current innovations in digital imaging, the author details the way in which developments in technology served the needs of nine portrait photographers and one photographic portrait studio. In each of ten chapters, Perich provides a concise description of how both well-known and lesser-known photographers exploited innovations in technology to fulfill their aesthetic needs and the demands of their audience. One of the strengths of the book is Perich's ability to make clear the various complex photographic processes and then contextualize them within each artist's oeuvre to show how each development allowed for unique expression. The extensive and lavish illustrations (130 total) and their accompanying captions are another strength. This book will interest those seeking a history of portrait photography and a general history of photography. Summing Up : Recommended. Lower- and upper-level undergraduates; general readers. -- J. H. Noonan, Caldwell College, PUBLISHERS WEEKLY Perich, associate curator of the Smithsonian's Photographic History Collection, looks at how photographic subjects, techniques, uses, and approaches have changed from the mid-19th to the 21st century by studying nine iconic photographers: Juliet Margaret Cameron, Dorothea Lange, Richard Avedon, George K. Warren, Gertrude Käsebier, Nicholas Murray, Henry Horenstein, Lauren Greenfield, and Robert Weingarten. Perich's fine introduction notes how photographs represents "a complex balance of culture, technology, artistic intention, personal and consumer use, and historical context." She explores these factors in essays on each photographer, providing biographical information that proves particularly helpful in parsing the images. Of Lange, for example, she suggests that the photographer's empathy for the Depression-era poor was partly based on her own suffering-she was stricken by polio as a child and was deeply scarred by her father's desertion of the family. While one can argue with Perich's choices-why no W. Eugene Smith or Diane Arbus?-she has unquestionably produced an important, well-written, and aesthetically pleasing work. (Oct.) CHOICE Drawing from the rich, vast photographic collection of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History, associate curator Perich surveys the history of portrait photography, and in so doing also offers a broader history of photography. Beginning with the daguerreotype and ending with current innovations in digital imaging, the author details the way in which developments in technology served the needs of nine portrait photographers and one photographic portrait studio. In each of ten chapters, Perich provides a concise description of how both well-known and lesser-known photographers exploited innovations in technology to fulfill their aesthetic needs and the demands of their audience. One of the strengths of the book is Perich's ability to make clear the various complex photographic processes and then contextualize them within each artist's oeuvre to show how each development allowed for unique expression. The extensive and lavish illustrations (130 total) and their accompanying captions are another strength. This book will interest those seeking a history of portrait photography and a general history of photography. Summing Up : Recommended. Lower- and upper-level undergraduates; general readers. -- J. H. Noonan, Caldwell College
Dewey Decimal
778.9/209
Synopsis
A richly illustrated volume examines the portrait work of Dorthea lange, Richard Avedon, Robert Weingarten, George K. Warren, Julia Margaret Cameron, the Barr & Wright Studio, Gertrude K seebier, Nickolas Muray, Henry Horenstein, and Lauren Greenfiled. The Changing Face of Portrait Photography explores the power of the portrait and the role it plays in our personal and national identities. The Changing Face of Portrait Photography explores ten groups of portraits selected from within the Smithsonian National Museum of American History's Photographic History Collection. The selections represent work by specific photographers with diverse relationships to portraiture, and through their sampling take a focused look at changing convention, theory, and technologies.
LC Classification Number
TR575.P463 2011
Text by
Perich, Shannon
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