Making culture visible : the public display of photography at fairs, expositions, and exhibitions in the United States, 1847-1900 / Julie K. Brown.

Main entry:

Brown, Julie K.

Title & Author:

Making culture visible : the public display of photography at fairs, expositions, and exhibitions in the United States, 1847-1900 / Julie K. Brown.

Publication:

Description:

192 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm

Series:

Documenting the image ; v. 8

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 178-186) and index.
Industrial Fairs -- Chapter 1 The Photograph as Commodity 1 -- Chapter 2 Photographs and the New Culture of Commerce 33 -- International Expositions -- Chapter 3 The Paradox of Independence 59 -- Chapter 4 The Image as Tool 90 -- Institutional Exhibitions -- Chapter 5 The Photograph as Cultural Artifact 121 -- Chapter 6 The Photograph as Information 149 -- Appendix Photographic Print, Negative, Reproductive Processes 175.

Summary:

"Making Culture Visible provides a fresh focus on the history of nineteenth-century photography. The narrative moves from a close focus on several selected events between 1847 and 1900, beginning with six industrial fairs of the 1840s-1860s to the looming presence of the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition in the mid 1870s. The last two chapters deal with the exhibition work of the Smithsonian Institution's US National Museum in the 1880s and finally the collecting and displays of public libraries in the 1890s. The evolution of the increasingly complex social function of photography is clearly demonstrated. Photography had moved from being an object of commerce to an applied tool of specialized knowledge, a museum artifact of social culture, and finally, a visual resource of information." "This book revitalizes the roots of photography's own cultural history by reconnecting it to a living social process that has often been absent in recent theoretical works on photography. Photography does not operate in a vacuum, and the public dimension of the history of photography was, as it continues to be, played out on the cultural stage of exhibition."--Jacket

ISBN:

9058231399
9789058231390

Subject:

Exhibitions United States History 19th century.
Photography United States History 19th century.
Fairs United States.
Photography United States Exhibitions History 19th century.
Photography History 19th century.
Photographie États-Unis Expositions Histoire 19e siècle.
Photographie Histoire 19e siècle.
Foires États-Unis.
Expositions États-Unis Histoire 19e siècle.
Exhibitions
Fairs
Photography
Fotografie.
Tentoonstellingen.
Beurzen (handel)
United States

Form/genre:

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

Added entries:

Documenting the image ; v. 8.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 218737
Call No.: TR646.U6 B8 2001
Status: Available

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