The Changing Face of Portrait Photography: From Daguerreotype to Digital
by Perich, Shannon Thomas
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1588342743
- ISBN 13
- 9781588342744
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About This Item
Washington D.C.: National Museum of American History; Smithsonian Institution Press, 2011. Cloth, xv, 159 pages, illustrations (some colour); 29 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Tips lightly bumped. First printing. Dust jacket, with light shelfwear, protected in a mylar cover. "A richly illustrated volume examines ten photographers' portrait work and explores the power of the portrait and the role it plays in our personal and national identities. The Changing Face of Portrait Photography explores ten groups of portraits selected from within the Smithsonian National Museum of American History's Photographic History Collection. The selections represent work by specific photographers with diverse relationships to portraiture, and through their sampling take a focused look at changing convention, theory, and technologies." - Publisher. CONTENTS: George K. Warren: the yearbook photographer--a perfect brick (1832-1884); Julia Margaret Cameron: spiritual and intellectual riches (1815-1879); Barr & Wright Studio: Main Street photographers (1870-1880); Gertrude Ka sebier: forging a path to beauty (1852-1934); Dorothea Lange: Migrant mother lives on (1895-1965); Nickolas Muray: an affectionate front (1892-1965); Richard Avedon: a portrait is not a likeness (1923-2004); Henry Horenstein: times marches on (b. 1947); Lauren Greenfield: the personal is potent (b. 1966); Robert Weingarten: portraits unbound (b. 1941).. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to. Collectible.
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- Title
- The Changing Face of Portrait Photography: From Daguerreotype to Digital
- Author
- Perich, Shannon Thomas
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 1588342743
- ISBN 13
- 9781588342744
- Publisher
- National Museum of American History; Smithsonian Institution Press
- Place of Publication
- Washington D.C.
- Date Published
- 2011
- Size
- 4to
- Keywords
- COLLECTIBLE
- Bookseller catalogs
- XXX / COLLECTIBLES; Photography / History; Photography / Subjects & Themes / Portraits; Photography / Collections, Catalogues, Exhibitions;
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