Observations / edited by David Featherstone ; contributors, Maria Morris Hambourg [and 8 others].

Title & Author:

Observations / edited by David Featherstone ; contributors, Maria Morris Hambourg [and 8 others].

Publication:

Description:

viii, 118 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Series:

Untitled, 0163-7916 ; 35

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Preface / David Featherstone -- A backward glance at documentary / Beaumont Newhall -- The photographer as aggressor / Bill Jay -- Atget, precursor of modern documentary photography / Maria Morris Hambourg -- Photographic facts and thirties America / Anne Wilkes Tucker -- Walker Evans' America : a documentary invention / Alan Trachtenberg -- A way of seeing and the act of touching : Helen Levitt's photographs of the forties / Max Kozloff -- Public statements, private views : shifting the ground in the 1950s / William S. Johnson -- The photographs of Larry Burrows : human qualities in a document / Mark Johnstone -- Propaganda and persuasion / Estelle Jussim.
Also issued online.

Summary:

A backward glance at documentary / Beaumont NewhallThe photographer as aggressor / Bill JayAtget, precursor of modern documentary photography / Maria Morris HambourgPhotographic facts and Thirties America / Anne Wilkes TuckerWalker Evans' America : a documentary invention / Alan TrachtenbergA way of seeing and the act of touching : Helen Levitt's photographs of the Forties / Max KozloffPublic statements/private views : shifting the ground in the 1950s / William S. JohnsonThe photographs of Larry Burrows, human qualities in a document / Mark JohnstonePropaganda and persuasion / Estelle Jussim.

ISBN:

0933286392 (pbk.)
9780933286399 (pbk.)

Subject:

Documentary photography.
Photographers.
Photographie documentaire.
Photographes.
documentary photography.
photographers.

Form/genre:

Documentary photography.
documentary photographs.
Documentary photographs.
Photographies documentaires.

Added entries:

Featherstone, David, editor, writer of preface.
Hambourg, Maria Morris, contributor.
Friends of Photography.
Untitled ; 35.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 288946
Call No.: BIB 231005
Status: Available

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