The photographic experience, 1839-1914 : images and attitudes / Heinz K. Henisch and Bridget A. Henisch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Henisch, Heinz K., author.

Henisch, Bridget Ann, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Photography--History.

Photography.

Portrait photography--History.

Portrait photography.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

x, 462 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

Place of Publication:

University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, [1994]

Summary:

Eighteen thirty-nine was the miraculous year in which the two principal inventors of photography - Daguerre in France and Fox Talbot in Great Britain - made their discoveries known to an eager and receptive public. News of the process flashed around the globe, and in no time, enthusiastic pioneers from Auckland to Zanzibar were trying the new invention. Photography took root and flourished. It has since been used in a thousand ways and has changed our modes of perception in many more. The Photographic Experience deals with episodes and issues relating to the spread and practice of photography from its beginnings to World War I. Bridget and Heinz Henisch concern themselves with the reception accorded to the new art by professionals, amateurs, and the general public. They examine reactions to the new invention in the press, literature, poetry, music, and fashion; the response of intellectuals and painters; and the beliefs held by prominent photographers concerning the nature of the medium and its mission. With a wide array of images - many never before published - they illustrate the photograph's use as a record of public and private moments in life. Photography became quickly and thoroughly interwoven with the fabric of society and human experience, and its history comprises much more than the story of photographic art and its creators. The authors examine photographic ephemera and humor, photography and the law, the photographic studio experience, photography and travel, photography and journalism with special attention to advertising and war, the role of photography in politics, photographically illustrated books, the practice of overpainting, photography in the hands of the scholar, and the presentation and use of photographs in their social milieu.

Contents:

Introduction

A new invention

A new word

Photographist in charge

The iconographer

Master of make-believe

The magician

The memory-maker

Sidelights

Culinary dimensions

Fashion in focus

Fictions and fancies

Musical moments

Mixed media

The engraver

The retoucher

The overpainter

Other links

Setting and frame

Cases of character

Presentation, private and public

Under cover

Family milestones

For love's sake

Landmarks

'Til death do us part

The heliographer's arms

Age-old words and symbols

Foreign approaches

Cosmic purity and hi-tech

Double-dipping

Playing the public

Securing the shadow

Advertising and publicity

Catching the eye

The cult of celebrity

Humor

Magic, old and new

Contraptions, infernal

Vanity, oh vanity

Harebrained genius and flirtatious fringe

The worm turns

Camera in court

Opening skirmishes

Forensic focus

The impressionable eye

Plagiarism, pretensions, and pretense

Photographs as corpora delicti and evidence

The photographically illustrated book

The versatile medium

Books of distinction ; examples of choice

Politics on a plate

Business as usual

The establishment

The challengers

Shades of opinion

The cutting edge

The camera at war

The military response

Civilian cameramen

Portraits

Views

On the sidelines

The molding of minds

Photography and travel

Rail, steam, and lens

Pleasing prospects

The photographer in place

The peripatetic camera

The amateur's adventures

Armchair travels

The trivialization of travel

Photography in the writer's world

First impressions

Second thoughts

Before and behind the camera

In the study.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0271009306

9780271009308

OCLC:

26810350