Photography in nineteenth-century America / edited by Martha A. Sandweiss ; with essays by Alan Trachtenberg [and 5 others].

Title & Author:

Photography in nineteenth-century America / edited by Martha A. Sandweiss ; with essays by Alan Trachtenberg [and 5 others].

Publication:

Fort Worth : Amon Carter Museum ; New York : Harry N. Abrams, 1991.
Tokyo : Mitsumura Printing Company
©1991

Description:

xv, 335 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm

Notes:
Catalogue of the exhibition held at the Amon Carter Museum, October 26, 1991-January 5, 1992.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword / Jan Keene Muhlert -- 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.
Also issued online.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents
Additional information at Google Books

ISBN:

0810936593 (cloth)
9780810936591 (cloth)
0883600676 (paperback)
9780883600672 (paperback)

Subject:

Photography United States History 19th century.
Photography, Artistic Exhibitions.
Photographie artistique Expositions.
Photography
Fotografie
Aufsatzsammlung
United States
USA
Photography History 19th century United States

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.
Exhibition catalogs.
exhibition catalogs.
History
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Sandweiss, Martha A., editor, author, writer of introduction.
Muhlert, Jan Keene, 1942- writer of foreword.
Trachtenberg, Alan, author.
McCandless, Barbara, 1949-2005, author.
Davis, Keith F., 1952- author.
Hales, Peter B. (Peter Bacon), author.
Greenough, Sarah, 1951- author.
Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, host institution, publisher.
Harry N. Abrams, Inc., publisher.
Mitsumura Insatsu Kabushiki Kaisha, printer, binder.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 174422
Call No.: TR23 .P48 1991
Notes: hbk.
Status: Available

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