Photography : a cultural history

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author Marien, Mary Warner (Author)
Format Book
LanguageEnglish
Published Upper Saddle River, NJ : Pearson Prentice Hall, c2011
Edition3rd ed.
Subjects
dějiny fotografie
fotografie > kulturní aspekty
fotografie > sociální aspekty
history of photography
photography > cultural aspects
photography > social aspects
monografie
monographs
ISBN9780205708000 0-20-570800-5
Physical Descriptionxv, 552 s. : il. (některé barev.) ; 30 cm

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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Pt. 1. Photography's double invention. The origin of photography (to 1839) ; The second invention of photography (1839-1854) ; Philosophy and practice: a threat to art?
  • Pt. 2. The expanding domain (1854-1880). Popular photography and the aims of art ; Imaging of the social world ; Science and social science ; Philosophy and practice: "superseded by reality"
  • Pt. 3. Photography and modernity (1880-1918). The great divide ; Modern life ; Philosophy and practice: the real thing
  • Pt. 4. A new vision (1918-1945). Art and the age of mass media ; Social science, social change, and the camera ; Philosophy and practice: the "common man" and the end of media utopia
  • Pt. 5. Through the lens of culture (1945-1975). The human family ; The West and the Cold War ; Philosophy and practice: purity and diversity
  • Pt. 6. Convergences (1975 to the present). Globalism, technology, and social change ; The postmodern view ; Into the twenty-first century ; Philosophy and practice: re-membering
  • Epilogue
  • Glossary
  • Timeline

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