Photography in America / Miles Orvell, Temple University.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Orvell, Miles.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Photography--United States--History.

Photography.

United States.

History.

Photography--Textbooks.

Genre:

History.

Textbooks.

Physical Description:

xxvii, 303 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2016.

Summary:

Presents a chronological history of American photography within a thematic framework, From scientific and documentary photography to the more purely aesthetic, the camera has become a part of American culture at every level. Photography in America explores the medium from a variety of angles-portrait, landscape, photojournalism, documentary, creative digital photography, postmodern critique of the image-in order to help students understand its impact and meaning. Organized by genres and modes, this text traces the history of a medium considered central to American culture by examining its different uses, going hack to its beginnings in the mid-nineteenth century and looking forward to its future. Distinctive Features, The Introduction explores the evolution of the camera and provides guidance on writing about photography, Feature boxes throughout the text contain mini-essays on special topics like "Techniques, Formats, and Equipment," "Lives in Photography," and "Movements and Trends", 170 key terms, listings of museums and websites, and a timeline help first-time photography students navigate the content and expand their study, 150 biographical sketches of photographers provide additional context and help students connect with the people behind works discussed in the text, On the Cover, African American photographer Gordon Parks began his work for the Farm Security Administration in 1942. His first photograph for the PSA was this portrait of Ella Watson, who worked as a cleaning lady in the building occupied by the agency. Posing Watson to evoke painter Grant Wood's well-known American Gothic (1930), Parks's photo juxtaposed the hard life of African American workers against the promise of America symbolized by the flag. It became his most famous photograph, but one that the head of the FSA, Roy Stryker, thought was too provocative to use at the time. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Introduction: Understanding Photography 3

Evolution of the Camera 3

Techniques, Formats, and Equipment 4

Pinhole Photography

The Daguerreotype and Ambrotype

Techniques, Formats, and Equipment 5

Wet Plate to Dry Plate

Photography and the Other Arts 7

How to Read a Photograph 8

Writing about Photography 9

Techniques, Formats, and Equipment 10

The Parts of a Camera

Key Terms 13

Key Names 13

I The Nineteenth Century

2 Presenting the Self: The Portrait 15

Techniques, Formats, and Equipment 17

Photographic Formats

The Private Portrait 17

Techniques, Formats, and Equipment 22

Albumen and Gelatin Printing

The Public Portrait 22

The Scientific Portrait 24

Techniques, Formats, and Equipment 27

The Mug Shot

The Portrait in the Twentieth Century 29

Movements and Trends 30

George Eastman and the Growth of Amateur Photography

Key Terms 33

Key Names 33

3 Viewing the Landscape 35

Movements and Trends 36

Approaches to Landscape Photography

View Photography 37

Techniques, Formats, and Equipment 38

Panorama

Techniques, Formats, and Equipment 39

The Stereograph

The Survey Photograph 41

Lives in Photography 43

O'Sullivan and Jackson

The Aesthetic Landscape 44

Movements and Trends 45

Rephotographing the West

Ansel Adams 46

Movements and Trends 48

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Key Terms 49

Key Names 49

4 Seeing and Believing: Photography as Documentary 51

Photography in the Civil War 52

Movements and Trends 53

War Photography

Photography in the Popular Press 56

Lives in Photography 59

Eadweard Muybridge

Techniques, Formats, and Equipment 59

Fine Art Printing: From Calotype to Photogravure

Riis, Hine, and Social Documentary Photography 60

Movements and Trends 62

Lewis Wickes Nine's Promotion of "Photography in the School"

The Information Environment 65

Key Terms 68

Key Names 69

5 A Photographic Art 71

Pictorialism 71

The Photo-Secession 72

Movements and Trends 73

Photo-Secession

Alfred Stieglitz 76

Lives in Photography 78

Stieglitz and Camera Work

Movements and Trends 80

Cubism and Photography

Paul Strand 81

Lives in Photography 83

Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946) and Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986)

Modern Photography: Abstraction Versus the Object 84

Movements and Trends 85

Neue Sachlichkeit

Techniques, Formats, and Equipment 88

The Cyanotype and the Photogram

Edward Weston 88

Modernism After World War II 91

Key Terms 92

Key Names 93

II The Twentieth Century

6 Photography and Society 95

Documentary in the 1930s 95

The Farm Security Administration 99

Movements and Trends 103

The Documentary Photo Book

Picture Magazines 104

Lives in Photography 105

Weegee

The Family of Man 106

Robert Frank 107

Street Photography 108

Exposing the Other America 111

Techniques, Formats, and Equipment 112

Large-Format Cameras

America Seen from the Outside 114

Photographing Urban Decay: Vergara and Moore 116

America in a Global Context 118

Key Terms 119

Key Names 119

7 Photography as Life Narrative 121

The Autobiographical Mode: Family Albums 121

Lives in Photography 124

Novak's Collected Visions, a Global Family Album

Transforming the Family Snapshot 124

Expanding the Self-Portrait 127

Techniques, Formats, and Equipment 129

Photo Booth

Movements and Trends 131

Mapplethorpe and the Culture Wars

Letting the Subject Speak 132

Defining Communities 136

Movements and Trends 140

Motorcycles and the Open Road

Diane Arbus 141

Nan Goldin and Catherine Opie 142

Key Terms 144

Key Names 145

8 African American and Photography 147

Beginnings 147

The Universal Exposition in Paris in 1900 148

Photography in the Harlem Renaissance 149

The 1930s and 1940s 151

Movements and Trends 156

Richard Wright's 12 Million Black Voices

Photography and Civil Rights 156

DeCarava and Kamoinge 159

Contemporary Black Photographers 160

Movements and Trends 161

Kamoinge 163

Key Terms 163

Key Names 163

III Contemporary Photography

9 Contemporary Landscape Photography 165

The Sublime Tradition 165

Conceptual Landscapes 166

The Man-Altered Landscape 166

Movements and Trends 170

The New Topographies

Aerial Photography: The Man-Altered Landscape Seen from the Air 173

Techniques, Format, and Equipment 173

Aerial Photography

The Landscape of Destruction 177

Key Terms 182

Key Names 183

10 Bearing Witness 185

Iconic Images 185

War Photography 187

Techniques, Formats, and Equipment 188

The Leica Camera/35 mm Format

Vietnam 188

Movements and Trends 189

Magnum Photos

Movements and Trends 190

The Vietnam War and American Culture

Documenting the Unthinkable 192

The Iraqi Wars 196

Atomic Photography 197

Natural Disasters 200

Key Terms 202

Key Names 203

11 Photography and the Image World 205

Photography and Consumer Culture 206

Techniques, Formats, and Equipment 207

Industrial Photography

Celebrity 209

Fame and Infamy 211

Techniques, Formats, and Equipment 213

Clandestine Photography

The Postmodern World of Images 213

Media Imagery as Found Art 215

Techniques, Formats, and Equipment 216

Appropriating Images

Contemporary Photography and the Archive 219

Key Terms 221

Key Names 221

12 Photographing Fictions 223

A. D. Coleman: Revising the History of Photography 223

Movements and Trends 224

Photographing Ghosts and Spirits

Early Creative Photography 225

Duane Michals 229

Movements and Trends 229

Surrealism and Contemporary Photography

Joel-Peter Witkin and Andres Serrano 231

Cindy Sherman 234

Constructing Scenes, Fabricating Images 236

Gregory Crewdson and Jeff Wall 239

Key Terms 241

Key Names 241

13 Conclusion: Digital Truth 243

Techniques, Formats, and Equipment 244

Digital Cameras

Key Terms 252

Key Names 252.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-232) and index.

ISBN:

9780199314225

0199314225

OCLC:

904528804