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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Mike Weaver; Daniel Wolf; Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.; Australian National Gallery. |
| ISBN: | 0300044577 9780300044577 0300044569 9780300044560 |
| OCLC Number: | 18739663 |
| Notes: | "Published on the occasion of the exhibition The art of photography 1829-1989, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, Royal Academy of Arts, London"--P. facing t.p. |
| Description: | x, 472 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm. |
| Contents: | Foreword -- Lender to the exhibition -- Acknowledgments -- Photographic acknowledgments -- Introduction / Daniel Wolf -- Chronology / Anne Hammond -- Prologue : The picture as photograph / Mike Weaver -- 1. The pencil of nature / Beaumont Newhall -- "The magic mirror" (1830) / Henry Fox Talbot -- 2. The nineteenth-century portrait / Will Stapp -- "Annals of my glass house" (1874) / Julia Margaret Cameron -- 3. Early French masters / Ben Lifson -- "Photography in France" (1852) / Roger Fenton -- 4. Le Gray - Fenton - Watkins / Mike Weaver -- "The relation between photography and painting" (1860) / Philip Gilbert Hamerton -- 5. Travel / Robert A. Sobieszek -- "The art of photography" (1860) / Francis Frith -- 6. Pictorial effect / Peter C . Bunnell -- "On the possibility of new laws of compositions" (1910) / Sadakichi Hartmann -- 7. "An American place" / Mike Weaver -- "America and photography" (1929) / Edward Weston -- 8. The modern movement / Robert Shapazian -- "A new instrument of vision" (1932) / Lázló Moholy-Nagy -- 9. European documentary styles / Ben Lifson -- "The decisive moment" (1952) / Henri Cartier-Bresson -- 10. American documentary styles / Anne Tucker -- "Photography" / Walker Evans -- 11. The inner vision / Ben Lifson -- Memorable fancies" (1952, 1957) / Minor White -- 12. British contemporaries / Mark Haworth-Booth -- "Ray Moore Talking" (1981) / Ray Moore -- 13. Scenes of conflict / David Mellor -- Slightly out of focus (1947) / Robert Capa -- 14. Figures of style / David Mellor -- "World without men" (1984) / Helmut Newton -- 15. Construction and appropriation / Chris Titterington -- "Photographic practice and theory" (1974) / Victor Burgin -- Glossary --- Artists' biographies and list of works in the exhibition -- Select bibliography. |
| Responsibility: | catalogue edited by Mike Weaver ; photographs selected by Daniel Wolf with Mike Weaver and Norman Rosenthal. |
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