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Seizing the Lightthought-provoking, accurate, and accessible introduction to the photographic arts for all readers. With stunning images and commentary by hundreds of international artists, the text clearly and concisely provides the building blocks necessary to critically explore photographic history from the photographers' eye, an aesthetic point of view.
Contents
PrefaceCHAPTER ONE - Advancing toward PhotographyModernityA Desire for Visual RepresentationPerspectiveThinking of PhotographyCamera VisionThe Demand for Picturemaking SystemsProto-Photographers: Chemical Action of LightModernity: New Visual RealitiesOptical DevicesImages through Light: A Struggle for PermanenceOther Distinct OriginatorsCHAPTER TWO - The Daguerreotype: Image and ObjectWhat Is a Daguerreotype?The Daguerreotype Comes to AmericaThe Early PractitionersEarly Daguerrean Portrait MakingTechnical ImprovementsExpanding U.S. Portrait StudiosThe Art of the Daguerrean PortraitDaguerrean Portrait Galleries and Picture FactoriesAfrican-American OperatorsRural PracticePost-Mortem Portraits The Daguerreotype and the LandscapeThe Daguerreotype and ScienceCHAPTER THREE - Calotype Rising: The Arrival of PhotographyThe CalotypeEarly Calotype ActivityCalotypists Establish a PracticeCalotype and Architecture: Mission HeliographiqueThe End of the Calotype and the Future of PhotographyCHAPTER FOUR - Pictures on Glass: The Wet-Plate ProcessThe Albumen ProcessThe New Transparent LookThe AmbrotypePictures on TinThe Carte-de-Visite and the Photo AlbumThe Cabinet Photograph: The Picture Gets BiggerThe Studio TraditionRetouching and EnlargementsThe StereoscopeThe Stereo CrazeCHAPTER FIVE - Prevailing Events/Picturing CalamityCurrent EventsEarly War CoverageThe American Civil WarHow Photographs Were CirculatedCHAPTER SIX - A New Medium of CommunicationPhotography: Art or Industry?Discovering a Photographic LanguageAmericans and the Art of NaturePositivismCHAPTER SEVEN - Standardizing the Practice: A Transparent TruthMechanical PhotographyThe Traveling CameraPicturing IndustrializationUrban LifeThe American West: The Narrative and the SublimeCHAPTER EIGHT - New Ways of Visualizing Time and SpaceThe Inadequacy of Human VisionLocomotionTransforming Aesthetics: Technical BreakthroughsThe Hand-Held Camera and the SnapshotTime and Motion as an Extended ContinuumMoving PicturesColor and PhotographyCHAPTER NINE - Suggesting the Subject: The Evolution of PictorialismRoots of PictorialismPictorialism and NaturalismThe Development of Pictorial EffectThe Secession Movement and the Rise of Photography ClubsThe Aesthetic Club MovementWorking Pictorially: A Variety of ApproachesAmerican PerspectivesThe Photo-SecessionThe Decadent Movement and TonalismWomen PictorialistsThe Pictorial Epoch/The Stieglitz GroupThe Decline of PictorialismCHAPTER TEN - Modernism's InnovationsIndustrial BeautyCubismHigh and Low ArtFuturismTime, Movement, and the MachineTowards a Modern Practice: Distilling FormDadaExploring Space and Time: The Return of the PhotogramSurrealismCollageSuprematismArt, Technology, and a New FaithPaul Strand and Straight Photography: Purity of UseCHAPTER ELEVEN - The New Culture of LightTeaching Modernism: The American ImpulseStieglitz's "Equivalents"Steichen Goes CommercialForm as EssenceStraight, Modernistic PhotographyFilm und Foto and New ObjectivityExperimentally ModernNew VisionPathways of Light: Time, Space, and FormSurrealistic ThemesCHAPTER TWELVE - Social DocumentsAn American Urge: Social UpliftEthnological ApproachesEmerging Ethnic ConsciousnessThe Physiognomic ApproachThe Great Depression: The Economics of PhotographyThe FAP Project: Changing New YorkThe Photo Booth: Self-Portraits for AllMass ObservationThe Film and Photo LeagueCHAPTER THIRTEEN - Nabbing TimeAnticipating the MomentCHAPTER FOURTEEN - From Halftones to BytesPictures and Printers InkThe Photo MagazineThe Separation of Art and Commerce: Advertising and FashionNewspapersWar ReportageThe New Subjective JournalismBytes of NewsCHAPTER FIFTEEN - The Atomic Age: New Light/Fresh MethodsThe Surrealistic MetaphorThe Photograph as SpiritPhoto Education as Self-ExpressionFamily of ManPhotography and AlienationMaking a Big JumpThe Subjective DocumentaryThe Terror of RichesCHAPTER SIXTEEN - New Frontiers: Expanding BoundariesStructuralism: Reading a PhotographThe Found Image: The Beginnings of PostmodernismThe Rise of Pop ArtChallenging the CodeThe Social LandscapeNew JournalismMultiple Points of ViewThe Rapid Growth of Photographic EducationCHAPTER SEVENTEEN - Changing RealitiesAlternative VisionsTurning the Straight Photograph on ItselfPersonal Accounts: Documentary FictionThe SnapshotPost-Structuralism/New TopographicsThe Rephotographic Survey Project/Time ChangesColor RisingArtists' BooksReconfiguring InformationExpanding MarketsCritical WritingCHAPTER EIGHTEEN - Thinking About PhotographyConceptual Art: The Act of ChoosingPerformance ArtA Return to TypologiesPostmodernismDeconstructing MythsGender IssuesFabricationAltering Time and SpaceInvestigating the BodyMulticulturalism: Exploring Identity & HistoryA Personal Cultural LandscapeThe Digital Future Is NowThe Postphotographic AgeBibliographyIndividual ArtistsTechnologySources of Artists BooksIndexNER(01): WOW
