American Century of Photography

by Davis, Keith

• ISBN13: 9780810963788
• ISBN10: 0810963787
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-03-01
• Publisher: Hallmark Cards

Summary

Fully 50 percent larger than the highly acclaimed first edition of An American Century of Photography, radically revised with almost 200 new images, and including work by 120 new photographers, this comprehensive volume is like no other on the subject. It presents a significantly new perspective on the history of American photography from the mid-1880s to the present, emphasizing the relationship between individuals and aesthetic movements and the intellectual and cultural climate in which artists work. The lavish illustrations, printed to the highest standards in both tritone and color, are drawn from The Hallmark Photographic Collection, one of the most renowned holdings of its kind. Begun in 1964, it is distinguished both by the exceptional quality of its rare prints and by the breadth of its perspective. As this unparalleled volume by a world-renowned authority demonstrates, the collection provides a uniquely stimulating survey of leading artists, ideas, and images.

Table of Contents

Foreword	8	(2)
Preface and Acknowledgments	10	(5)
I A Reluctant Modernism: 1885-1915	15	(94)
A New Age	16	(21)
A Half-Century of Change	16	(1)
Stopping Time	17	(1)
George Eastman and the "Camera Epidemic"	18	(3)
A Visual Revolution	21	(4)
Jacob Riis and the Social Landscape	25	(1)
Photography and the Mass Media	26	(5)
"The Peculiar Charm of Old Times"	31	(2)
The Vanishing North American Indian	33	(4)
Art and Photography	37	(22)
Photographic Aesthetics	39	(4)
The Rise of the Camera Club	43	(3)
Photographic Exhibitions	46	(1)
"A Photographic Epoch"	47	(5)
The "Old" and "New" Schools of Photography	52	(3)
The Logic of Pictorialism	55	(2)
The Arts and Crafts Influence	57	(2)
The Generation of 1902	59	(50)
The Stieglitz Circle	61	(3)
The City as Subject	64	(2)
Color	66	(2)
Opponents of the Photo-Secession	68	(2)
Stieglitz in Transition	70	(1)
Lewis Hine and the Human Document	71	(38)
II Abstraction and Realism: 1915-1940	109	(142)
"A World Bursting with New Ideas"	110	(9)
"The Trinity of Photography"	112	(2)
New York Dada	114	(3)
Coburn's Vortographs	117	(2)
The End of an Era	119	(1)
Purism and Pictorialism	119	(19)
The Clarence H. White School	122	(8)
The Salon Aesthetic	130	(2)
The Weston Circle	132	(2)
Group f/64	134	(4)
The New Vision	138	(22)
The Avant-Garde in Germany	139	(2)
The Avant-Garde in France	141	(2)
An American New Vision	143	(7)
The Art of the Machine Age	150	(4)
New Ways of Seeing	154	(4)
Color	158	(2)
American Documents	160	(12)
The Art of Documentary	162	(1)
The Photo League	162	(1)
Government Patronage	163	(2)
The Farm Security Administration	165	(2)
Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange	167	(4)
Documentary Fact and Invention	171	(1)
The Triumph of Photography	172	(79)
III From Public to Private Concerns: 1940-1965	251	(136)
In the Shadow of War	252	(9)
World War II	253	(4)
Korea	257	(2)
The Education Boom	259	(2)
From Document to Metaphor	261	(14)
The Surrealist Legacy	264	(3)
Callahan, Siskind	267	(3)
Forms of Abstraction	270	(2)
Minor White and Aperture	272	(3)
Multitude, Solitude	275	(21)
The New York School	279	(9)
Home Places	288	(4)
"The Family of Man" and The Americans	292	(4)
Art and Commerce	296	(9)
Fashion and Portraiture	298	(2)
Books	300	(2)
Color	302	(3)
New Perspectives: Into the '60s	305	(82)
The New Formalism	307	(3)
"A Form of Alchemy"	310	(1)
Institutions and Communities	311	(76)
IV The Image Transformed 1965-Present	387	(130)
The Photography Boom	388	(9)
An Expanding Field	389	(4)
Collections and Institutions	393	(4)
A New Pluralism	397	(21)
Directors and Dreamers	399	(2)
Straight Photography: The "Social Landscape" and Beyond	401	(6)
Technology and Process	407	(6)