Sternberger, Paul Spencer, 1966-

Between amateur and aesthete : the legitimization of photography as art in America, 1880-1900 / Paul Spencer Sternberger.

First edition.

Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, ©2001.

xxiii, 204 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

"The Popularization of amateur photography and the recognition of photography as an art framed the last two decades of the nineteenth century. Until now, these crucial events in the history of photography surprisingly have been unexamined. Paul Sternberger offers the first thorough investigation of the part played by the amateur photographer and of the struggle to legitimize photography as an art. He shows that the change in the perception of photography resulted not from a linear evolution but from an intricate, divergent, and often conflicting barrage of strategies. He also re-evaluates the role of Alfred Stieglitz and his use of Pictorialism as a means to escape photography's reputation as "merely truth." The photographic illustrations include some by the well-known names of the period - Stieglitz, Steichen, Peter Henry Emerson - and many by photographers now long forgotten. This fascinating study shows the late nineteenth century to have been a complex time for both photographic theory and practice in America. At the same time it enlarges our understanding of photographic history."--Jacket.

0826321518 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780826321510 (cloth ; alk. paper)

Photography, Artistic Philosophy.
Landscape photography United States History 19th century.
Art and photography United States.
Photographie artistique Philosophie.
Photographie de paysages États-Unis Histoire 19e siècle.
Art et photographie États-Unis.
Art and photography.
Landscape photography.
Fotografie
Kunst
Photographie de paysages États-Unis 19e siècle Histoire et critique.
United States.
USA
1880-1899

History.

Location: Library main 226646
Call No.: TR642 .S7 2001
Status: Available