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Genre/Form: | Stephen Rose Photography Collection (IMA Library) History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Freund, Gisèle. Photography & society. Boston : D.R. Godine, 1980 (OCoLC)636527550 |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Gisèle Freund |
ISBN: | 0879232501 9780879232504 |
OCLC Number: | 5499832 |
Language Note: | Translated into English from original French. |
Notes: | Translation of Photographie et société. |
Description: | 231 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm |
Contents: | The relationship between art and society -- Precursors of the photographic portait -- Photography during the July Monarchy (1830-1848) -- The first portrait photographers -- Photography during the Second Empire (1851-1870) -- Attitudes toward photography -- The expansion and artistic decline of the photographic profession -- Photography as a means of art reproduction -- Press photography -- The birth of photojournalism in Germany -- American mass media magazines -- Photography as a political tool -- Photography and the law -- The scandal-mongering press -- Photography as art -- Amateur photography -- Conclusion. |
Other Titles: | Photographie et société. |
Responsibility: | by Gisèle Freund. |
Abstract:
"This landmark study explores the intricate and ever-changing relationship between the photographer and the surrounding society. It considers the ubiquitous commercial, social, and political demands with which the photographer must deal and examines how the photographic reactions to these demands have in turn changed the society they reflect"--Cover.
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