A World History of Photography"A World History of Photography encompasses the entire range of the medium, from the camera lucida to the latest computer technology, and from Europe and the Americas to the Far East. It investigates all aspects of photography - aesthetic, documentary, commercial, and technical - while placing it in historical context. Included among the more than 800 photographs by men and women are both little-known and celebrated masterpieces, arranged in stimulating juxtapositions that illuminate their visual power." "Dr. Rosenblum's chronicle of photography is authoritative and unbiased, tracing both chronologically and thematically the evolution of this young art. Exploring the diverse roles that photography has played in the communication of ideas, Dr. Rosenblum devotes special attention to topics such as portraiture, documentation, advertising, and photojournalism, and to the camera as a medium of personal artistic expression. Profiles are provided of individual photographers who made notable contributions to the medium or epitomized a certain style."--BOOK JACKET. |
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... nudes were obscene , but erotic and pornographic images con- tinued to find an interested market . More to the point is the fact that to many Victorians no clear distinctions existed between studies of the nude made for artists , those ...
... nudes were obscene , but erotic and pornographic images con- tinued to find an interested market . More to the point is the fact that to many Victorians no clear distinctions existed between studies of the nude made for artists , those ...
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... nude in painting and graphic art emerged from a long history of masquerading as goddess or captive slave ( or as in Edouard Manet's Olympia as prostitute ) , the female nude figure became a motif in and for itself in both painting and ...
... nude in painting and graphic art emerged from a long history of masquerading as goddess or captive slave ( or as in Edouard Manet's Olympia as prostitute ) , the female nude figure became a motif in and for itself in both painting and ...
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... Nude The nude also appealed to photographers of the new vision . A quintessentially artistic theme , it lent itself to a variety of visual experiments in Europe , figuring in mon- tages , solarizations , oblique and close - up views by ...
... Nude The nude also appealed to photographers of the new vision . A quintessentially artistic theme , it lent itself to a variety of visual experiments in Europe , figuring in mon- tages , solarizations , oblique and close - up views by ...
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19th century Adolphe Braun advertising aesthetic Albumen print Alfred Stieglitz amateur American artistic Autochrome became British calotype camera images Charles chemical Collection collodion color commercial Courtesy Daguerre daguerreotype David Octavius Hill depiction documentary documentation EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE Edward Steichen Edward Weston England engravings Europe exhibition exposure expression film France French Gallery Gelatin silver print genre George Eastman House Germany glass graphic Henry included individual industrial interest International Museum invention John Journal landscape lens light London magazines medium ment Modern Art montage Museum of Modern Museum of Photography Muybridge Nadar nature negative nude painters painting paper Paris Paul Strand photogra Photographic Society Photography at George photojournalism photojournalists pictorial Pictorialist picture plate portraits portraiture posed produced published raphers raphy reproduced Robert Roger Fenton scenes sensitized shutter social Steichen stereograph studio style Talbot techniques themes tion tographers tonal United urban viewers views visual Weston William York