Blacklight

Classic essays on photography /

Title:
Classic essays on photography /
Format:
Book
Institution:
Lesley Moriarty, MassArt, Museum of Fine Arts
Contents:
Introduction / Alan Trachtenberg -- pt. 1. The early nineteenth century-- Memoire on the heliography / Joseph Nicéphore Niepce -- Daguerreotype / Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre -- Report / Dominique François Arago -- A brief historical sketch of the invention of art / William Henry Fox Talbot -- The daguerreotype / Edgar Allan Poe -- Photography / Lady Elizabeth Eastlake -- pt. 2. Victorian debates -- The stereoscope and the stereograph / Oliver Wendell Holmes -- The modern public and photography / Charles Baudelaire -- Idealism, realism, expressionism / Henry Peach Robinson -- Hints on art / Peter Henry Emerson -- pt. 3. Modern currents -- Social photography / Lewis Hine -- Pictorial photography / Alfred Stieglitz -- Photography ; Photography and artistic-photography / Marius De Zayas -- Is photography a new art? / Anonymous -- Photography ; Photography and the new god / Paul Strand -- Mechanism and expression / Franz Roh -- Photography / Laszlo Moholy-Nagy -- The age of light / Man Ray -- Seeing photographically / Edward Weston -- Photography at the crossroads / Berenice Abbott -- The reappearance of photography / Walker Evans -- pt. 4. Some recent themes and issues -- The centenary of photography / Paul Valéry -- A short history of photography / Walter Benjamin -- New reports and new vision : the nineteenth century / William M. Ivins, Jr. -- The ontology of the photographic image / André Bazin -- Photography / Siegfried Kracauer -- Rhetoric of the image / Roland Barthes -- Notes for a phenomenology of the photographic image / Hubert Damisch -- Understanding a photograph / John Berger.
Online access:
No online access
Library holdings:
Lesley-Moriarty Library Stacks
TR185 .C56 – Available
MassArt Main
TR185 .C56 1980 – Available
MFA Prints, Drawings and Photographs Library
TR185 .C56 1980 – Available