waever mike (1 Ergebnisse)

1st edition. Near fine paperback copy; wrapper edges very slightly dulled. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: x, 476 pages: illustrations (some colour), portraits; 29 cm.Notes: Published on the w74foccasion of the exhibition "The art of photography 1829-1989", Museum of Fine Arts, Houston: 11 February-30 April 1989; Australian National Gallery, Canberra: 17 June-27 August 1989; Royal Academy of Arts, London: 23 September-23 December 1989. Includes bibliography. Contents: Foreword -- Lender to the exhibition -- Acknowledgments -- Photographic acknowledgments -- Introduction / Daniel Wolf -- Chronology / Anne Hammond -- Prologue : The picture as photograph / Mike Weaver -- 1. The pencil of nature / Beaumont Newhall -- "The magic mirror" (1830) / Henry Fox Talbot -- 2. The nineteenth-century portrait / Will Stapp -- "Annals of my glass house" (1874) / Julia Margaret Cameron -- 3. Early French masters / Ben Lifson -- "Photography in France" (1852) / Roger Fenton -- 4. Le Gray -- Fenton -- Watkins / Mike Weaver -- "The relation between photography and painting" (1860) / Philip Gilbert Hamerton -- 5. Travel / Robert A. Sobieszek -- "The art of photography" (1860) / Francis Frith -- 6. Pictorial effect / Peter C . Bunnell -- "On the possibility of new laws of compositions" (1910) / Sadakichi Hartmann -- 7. "An American place" / Mike Weaver -- "America and photography" (1929) / Edward Weston -- 8. The modern movement / Robert Shapazian -- "A new instrument of vision" (1932) / La ázlo ó Moholy-Nagy -- 9. European documentary styles / Ben Lifson -- "The decisive moment" (1952) / Henri Cartier-Bresson -- 10. American documentary styles / Anne Tucker -- "Photography" / Walker Evans -- 11. The inner vision / Ben Lifson -- Memorable fancies" (1952, 1957) / Minor White -- 12. British contemporaries / Mark Haworth-Booth -- "Ray Moore Talking" (1981) / Ray Moore -- 13. Scenes of conflict / David Mellor -- Slightly out of focus (1947) / Robert Capa -- 14. Figures of style / David Mellor -- "World without men" (1984) / Helmut Newton -- 15. Construction and appropriation / Chris Titterington -- "Photographic practice and theory" (1974) / Victor Burgin -- Glossary --- Artists' biographies and list of works in the exhibition -- Select bibliography. Subjects: 19th-20th centuries. Photography, Artistic; Exhibitions. Photobooks. Photography History. Photography Exhibitions. Nineteenth century. Twentieth century. Genre: Exhibition catalogs. 3 Kg.