| Product Summary | | Format: Hardcover | | ISBN: 9780131832978 | | Publisher: Penguin Group USA | | Publish Date: 11/1/2002 | | Buy.com Sku: 33729774 | | Item#: B3TJVY | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 68426 | | Dimensions (in Inches) 11.5H x 9L x 1.75T | | Pages: 544 |
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| | | Providing a new perspective on many of the old stories in the history of photography, Mary Warner Marien's book is a provocative and informative read. She shows how the medium developed in various historical, economic, political, and cultural settings worldwide, and discusses the many uses to which photography has been put-from art to vernacular, documentary to photojournalism, and science to advertising.
Incorporating new research not covered in any other survey, Marien thoughtfully explores ideas generated by and about photography in each period, and examines photography's key role in contemporary art and today's increasing use of digital photography. With a panoply of arresting images by famous photographers such as Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen, August Sander, and Margaret Bourke-White-as well as many unusual and seldom-seen pictures-the book is as enticing to look at as its original ideas are stimulating to consider.
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In this international survey of photography, author Marien examines the art across the full range of its uses--in advertising, science, art and vernacular, and as a documentary medium. She shows how photography developed in different historical, cultural, political, and economic settings worldwide, and also how it has altered our perception of the world around us.
| PraiseBookforum
"Marien...is both an engaging writer and contextualist art historian...[T]he real strength of her history lies in her organized account of late-twentieth-century photography. In the chapter 'Convergences (1975-Present)', she manages an intelligent overview of postmodernist photo work, feminist and gay/lesbian issues with representation, and the current fascination with natural science and genetics,..." - Andy Grundberg Summer 2003 |
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