Le style documentaire : d'August Sander à Walker Evans, 1920-1945 / Olivier Lugon.

Main entry:

Lugon, Olivier.

Title & Author:

Le style documentaire : d'August Sander à Walker Evans, 1920-1945 / Olivier Lugon.

Publication:

Paris : Macula, 2001.

Description:

397 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Series:

Le champ de l'image

Notes:
Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Université de Genève. 1995.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Thesis supervisor: Professor Pierre Vaisse.

Summary:

In interwar German and American art photography with, for example, August Sander, Walker Evans, and Berenice Abbott, a form of "documentary" imagery was developed which avoided traditional artistic conventions in order to get closer to documentary photography. The thesis attempts to analyze this paradox: how could an almost mechanical grasp of reality be conceived as the safest way to make photography an art? How could such photographers have claimed to take things as they are and yet claim authorial status? Why has the document grown, in the eyes of contemporaries, to artistic status?

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

2865890651 (paperback)
9782865890651 (paperback)

Subject:

Documentary photography History.
Photographie documentaire Histoire.
Documentary photography.
Documentaires.
Stijlen.
Art criticism Photo

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Champ de l'image.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 221903
Call No.: TR653 .L8 2001
Status: Available

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