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The art of photography, 1839-1989
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- Creator
- catalogue edited by Mike Weaver ; photographs selected by Daniel Wolf with Mike Weaver and Norman Rosenthal
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- New Haven : Yale University Press, ©1989
- ©1989
- Physical Details
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- x, 472 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
- ISBNs
- 0300044577, 9780300044577, 0300044569, 9780300044560
- OCLC
- ocm18739663
- "Published on the occasion of the exhibition The art of photography 1829-1989, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, Royal Academy of Arts, London"--Preliminary page.
- Includes bibliographical references (page 472).
- Foreword -- Lender to the exhibition -- Introduction / Daniel Wolf -- Chronology / Anne Hammond -- Prologue : The picture as photograph / Mike Weaver -- The pencil of nature / Beaumont Newhall -- "The magic mirror" (1830) / Henry Fox Talbot -- The nineteenth-century portrait / Will Stapp -- "Annals of my glass house" (1874) / Julia Margaret Cameron -- Early French masters / Ben Lifson -- "Photography in France" (1852) / Roger Fenton -- Le Gray ; Fenton ; Watkins / "The relation between photography and painting" (1860) / Philip Gilbert Hamerton -- Travel / Robert A. Sobieszek -- "The art of photography" (1860) / Francis Frith -- Pictorial effect / Peter C . Bunnell -- "On the possibility of new laws of compositions" (1910) / Sadakichi Hartmann -- "An American place" / "America and photography" (1929) / Edward Weston -- The modern movement / Robert Shapazian -- "A new instrument of vision" (1932) / Lázló Moholy-Nagy -- European documentary styles / "The decisive moment" (1952) / Henri Cartier-Bresson -- American documentary styles / Anne Tucker -- "Photography" / Walker Evans -- The inner vision / Memorable fancies" (1952, 1957) / Minor White -- British contemporaries / Mark Haworth-Booth -- "Ray Moore Talking" (1981) / Ray Moore -- Scenes of conflict / David Mellor -- Slightly out of focus (1947) / Robert Capa -- Figures of style / "World without men" (1984) / Helmut Newton -- Construction and appropriation / Chris Titterington -- "Photographic practice and theory" (1974) / Victor Burgin