Alfred Street (University of Auckland Store)
Are you sure you want to delete this address?
American Photography
Paperback Edition: 1/2003
This survey offers fresh insights into 150 years of American photography, placing it in its cultural context. The author examinines the subject through portraiture and landscape photography, family albums and memory, and analyses the particularly "American" way in which American photographers have viewed the world
around them.Combining a clear overview of the changing nature of photographic thinking and practice in this period, with an exploration of key concepts, the result is a coherent history of American photography, which examines issues such as the nature of photographic exploitation, experimental techniques, the power of the photograph to shock, and whether we should subscribe to the notion of a visual history.
...
more