Photography in America

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Photography
in America
Edited by Róbert Doty
Introduction by Minor White
More than 250 photographs from
America 's greatest colleetions,
roprcsentiiig the worlc of 86 outstanding
photographers, show us not only somé
of the great landmarks in the history of
photography, but alsó many unpublished
and unfamiliar images of American
masters of the camera. For sixty years,
from Sonthworth Hawes in the 1840s
to the early twentieth century, American
photographers provided an incomparable
record of the country during its coming
of age: the exciting opening up of the
West, no less than the harsh face of war,
recorded in Mathew Brady 's Civil War
photographs, or the New York slums,
seen in the work of Jacob Riis. Our own
century has brought achievements as rich
as they are varied: the sloiv, uncertain
and painful growth of photography into
an art, above all tlirough Stieglitz,
Steichen and the other members of the... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Photography
in America
Edited by Róbert Doty
Introduction by Minor White
More than 250 photographs from
America 's greatest colleetions,
roprcsentiiig the worlc of 86 outstanding
photographers, show us not only somé
of the great landmarks in the history of
photography, but alsó many unpublished
and unfamiliar images of American
masters of the camera. For sixty years,
from Sonthworth Hawes in the 1840s
to the early twentieth century, American
photographers provided an incomparable
record of the country during its coming
of age: the exciting opening up of the
West, no less than the harsh face of war,
recorded in Mathew Brady 's Civil War
photographs, or the New York slums,
seen in the work of Jacob Riis. Our own
century has brought achievements as rich
as they are varied: the sloiv, uncertain
and painful growth of photography into
an art, above all tlirough Stieglitz,
Steichen and the other members of the
Photo-Secession; Walker Evans'
study of tenant farmei's in the South
¦ and the development of doeumentary
photography; Diane Arbus, reaching
below the surface of humanity with her
photographs of freaks and transvestites;
and in rocent years adventurous use
of advanced technology and rejection of
preconceived patterns of thought.
The result is a book which is at once a
brilliant survey of the evolution of
1 photography and an extraordinary
visual history of American life.
Róbert Doty is a former Curator of the
Whitney Museum of American Art,
I and is now Director of the Akron Art
Institute. Minor White recently retired
f rom the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, and was previously Curator
of the George Eastman Ilouse. Vissza