Photographic presidents : making history from daguerreotype to digital / Cara A. Finnegan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Finnegan, Cara A., author.

Contributor:

Sylvia W. Kauders Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Presidents--United States--Portraits.

Presidents.

Portrait photography.

History.

United States.

Portrait photography--United States--History.

Portraits, American.

Genre:

Portraits.

History.

Physical Description:

xi, 280 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2021]

Summary:

"Lincoln's somber portraits. Lyndon Johnson's swearing in. George W. Bush's reaction to learning about the 9/11 attacks. Photography plays an indelible role in how we remember and define American presidents. Throughout history, presidents have actively participated in all aspects of photography, not only by sitting for photos but by taking and consuming them. Cara A. Finnegan ventures from a newly-discovered daguerreotype of John Quincy Adams to Barack Obama's selfies to tell the stories of how presidents have participated in the medium's transformative moments. As she shows, technological developments not only changed photography, but introduced new visual values that influence how we judge an image. At the same time, presidential photographs--as representations of leaders who symbolized the nation--sparked public debate on these values and their implications. An original journey through political history, 'Photographic Presidents' reveals the intertwined evolution of an American institution and a medium that continues to define it"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Part I The Daguerreotype Presidents

1 Photographing George Washington p. 9

2 Early Daguerreotypes in the U.S. and the Nations Capital p. 26

3 John Quincy Adams and National Portraiture p. 35

Part II The Snapshot President

4 Handheld Photography and the Halftone Revolution p. 65

5 William McKinley's Last Photographs p. 80

Part III The Candid Camera Presidents

6 Visual News in the Early Twentieth Century p. 111

7 Herbert Hoover, Franklin Roosevelt, and the Candid Camera p. 123

Part IV The Social Media President

8 Changing Visual Media from the Mid-Twentieth Century to the Digital Age p. 155

9 Barack Obama and Flickr p. 169.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Sylvia W. Kauders Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Finnegan, Cara A. Photographic presidents

ISBN:

9780252043796

0252043790

9780252085789

0252085787

OCLC:

1196242019

Publisher Number:

99987318865