Photography in Print : Writings from 1816 to the Present

by Goldberg, Vicki

• ISBN13: 9780826310910
• ISBN10: 0826310915
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1988-10-01
• Publisher: Univ of New Mexico Pr

Summary

This useful collection includes over a century of the very best writing on photography. Vicki Goldberg has brought together more than 75 essays and excerpts that cover a vast and provocative range of topics. We have the first-hand accounts of photographers, from Fox Talbot to Alfred Stieglitz to Ansel Adams, and the thoughts of leading critics and philosophers, from Baudelaire to George Bernard Shaw to Susan Sontag. Some of the pieces illuminate important aspects of photographic history; others give unique insights in particular photographers; and some are just for fun. Together, they offer a lively approach to the history, art, and philosophy of photography.

Table of Contents

Introduction	19	(6)
The Truth Concerning the Invention of Photography: Nicephore Niepce, His Life and Works	25	(6)
V. Fouque
Bill Presented to the Chamber of Deputies, France	31	(18)
Some Account of the Art of Photogenic Drawing	36	(13)
William Henry Fox Talbot
The Edinburgh Review, January, 1843	49	(139)
Mirror Image: The Influence of the Daguerreotype on American Society	70	(7)
Richard Rudisill
An Historical Letter	77	(2)
L. E. Chittenden
Photographic Pleasures	79	(9)
Cuthbert Bede
A Review in the London Quarterly Review	88	(12)
Lady Eastlake
The Stereoscope and the Stereograph	100	(15)
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Photography Extraordinary	115	(4)
Lewis Carroll
Hiawatha's Photographing	119	(4)
Lewis Carroll
The Salon of 1859	123	(4)
Charles Baudelaire
My Life as a Photographer	127	(2)
Nadar
Nadar and the Republic of Mind	129	(12)
Max Kozloff
An Apology for Art-Photography	141	(7)
Oscar G. Rejlander
The Camera and the Pencil	148	(4)
Marcus Aurelius Root
Various writings	152	(3)
John Ruskin
Pictorial Effect in Photography	155	(8)
Henry Peach Robinson
Illustrations of China and Its People	163	(3)
John Thomson
Diaries	166	(2)
William Henry Jackson
Time Exposure	168	(3)
William Henry Jackson
Landscape Permuted: From Painting to Photography	171	(9)
Barbara Novak
Annals of My Glass House	180	(8)
Julia Margaret Cameron
The Photographic News, 1889	188	(105)
Naturalistic Photography	190	(7)
Peter Henry Emerson
The Death of Naturalistic Photography	197	(2)
Peter Henry Emerson
Interview with Mathew Brady	199	(8)
Geo. Alfred Townsend Gath
Afield with the Wet Plate	207	(3)
Valentine Blanchard
Is Photography Among the Fine Arts?	210	(4)
Joseph Pennell
The Hand Camera---Its Present Importance	214	(4)
Alfred Stieglitz
Photography as a Fine Art	218	(5)
Charles H. Caffin
On the London Exhibitions	223	(10)
George Bernard Shaw
A Visit to Steichen's Studio	233	(5)
Sadakichi Hartmann
Lewis Hine: The World of His Art	238	(16)
Alan Trachtenberg
The World of Atget	254	(5)
Berenice Abbott
The Photograph and the Mental Image	259	(8)
George Santayana
Self Portrait	267	(4)
Man Ray
Alfred Stieglitz: An American Seer	271	(2)
Dorothy Norman
Charles Sheeler: Artist in the American Tradition	273	(3)
Constance Rourke
The Art Motive in Photography	276	(12)
Paul Strand
Interview with Paul Strand	288	(3)
Milton Brown
A Life in Photography	291	(2)
Edward Steichen
The New York Times, March 6, 1923	293	(254)
Scoop, Scandal and Strife: A Study of Photography in Newspapers	295	(8)
Tom Hopkinson
Daybooks	303	(12)
Edward Weston
Leaflet, Written for the Los Angeles Museum	315	(4)
Edward Weston
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction	319	(16)
Walter Benjamin
Has Photography Gone Too Far?	335	(4)
James Thurber
From Pigment to Light	339	(10)
Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
The FSA Collection of Photographs	349	(6)
Roy Emerson Stryker
Migrant Mother: 1936	355	(4)
Paul Taylor
Interview with Walker Evans	359	(11)
Leslie Katz
Whistler's Hippopotamus	370	(7)
M. F. Agha
A Personal Credo	377	(4)
Ansel Adams
Art and Technics	381	(3)
Lewis Mumford
The Decisive Moment	384	(3)
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Prints and Visual Communication	387	(7)
William M. Ivins, Jr.
The Light Sensitive Mirage	394	(4)
Minor White
Statement	398	(2)
Statement	400	(2)
Robert Frank
Weegee by Weegee	402	(2)
Weegee
Night Light: Brassai and Weegee	404	(16)
Colin L. Westerbeck, Jr.
Statement	420	(2)
Harry Callahan
New Figures in a Classic Tradition	422	(9)
Henry Holmes Smith
Picasso and Company	431	(1)
Brassai
Interview with W. Eugene Smith	432	(10)
Paul Hill
Thomas Cooper
Some Humanistic Considerations of Photography	442	(10)
Jerry N. Uelsmann
On the Invention of Photographic Meaning	452	(22)
Allan Sekula
Introduction to Avedon's Portraits	474	(6)
Harold Rosenberg
The Directorial Mode	480	(12)
A. D. Coleman
The Man in the Crowd	492	(7)
Leo Rubinfien
The Modern Spirit	499	(2)
Gerry Badger
White Women	501	(5)
Vicki Goldberg
America, Seen Through Photographs, Darkly	506	(15)
Susan Sontag
The Photographic Message	521	(13)
Roland Barthes
In Our Image	534	(13)
Wright Morris
Index	547