Photography in Nineteenth-Century America
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Catalogue of the exhibition held at the Amon Carter Museum, Oct. 26, 1991-Jan. 5, 1992.
Introduction / Martha A. Sandweiss -- Color plates -- Photography : the emergence of a keyword / Alan Trachtenberg -- The portrait studio and the celebrity : promoting the art / Barbara McCandless -- Portfolio -- Undecisive moments : the narrative tradition in Western photography / Martha A. Sandweiss -- "A terrible distinctness" : photography of the Civil War era / Keith F. Davis -- Portfolio -- American views and the romance of modernization / Peter Bacon Hales -- "Of charming glens, graceful glades, and frowning cliffs" : the economic incentives, social inducements, and aesthetic issues of American pictorial photography, 1880-1902 / Sarah Greenough -- Portfolio -- Appendix. Works in the exhibition, with artist biographies.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Harry N. Abrams, 1991.
Year Published: 1991
Description: xv, 335 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 30 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780810936591 (cloth)
9780883600672 (paper)
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Sandweiss, Martha A.
Trachtenberg, Alan.
Amon Carter Museum of Western Art.
SUBJECTS
Photography -- United States -- History -- 19th century.