American photography

150 years of American photography come alive in this exciting new book, placing it in its cultural context for the first time. Orvell examines this fascinating subject through a wide range of well known and less-well known images. He ranges from portraiture and landscape photography, family albums a...

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Main Author: Orvell, Miles
Other Authors: Miles Orvell
Language:Undetermined
English
Published: Oxford,New York Oxford University Press 2003
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Institutions: Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Trà Vinh
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Summary:150 years of American photography come alive in this exciting new book, placing it in its cultural context for the first time. Orvell examines this fascinating subject through a wide range of well known and less-well known images. He ranges from portraiture and landscape photography, family albums and memory, and analyses the particularly 'American' way in which American photographers have viewed the world around them
Physical Description:256 p.
ill. (some col.)
24 cm
ISBN:0192842714
9780192842718