Photography and its critics : a cultural history, 1839-1900 / Mary Warner Marien.
By: Marien, Mary Warner.
Material type: BookSeries: Cambridge perspectives on photography.Publisher: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1997Description: xvi, 222 p. ill. ; 26 cm.ISBN: 0521550432 (hbk).Subject(s): Photographic criticism -- United States -- History -- 19th century | Photographic criticism -- Europe -- History -- 19th century | Photography -- Philosophy -- History -- 19th centuryDDC classification: 770Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Lending | MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending | 770 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00066099 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Photography and its Critics offers an original overview of nineteenth-century American and European writing about photography from such disparate fields as art theory, social reform, and physiology. In this study, Mary Warner Marien argues that photography was an important social and cultural symbol for modernity and change in several fields, such as art and social reform. Moreover, she demonstrates how photography quickly emerged as a pliant symbol for modernity and change, one that could as easily oppose progress as promote democracy.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- 1 The origins of photographic discourse
- 2 Photography and the modern in nineteenth-century thought
- 3 Art, photography and society
- 4 Forced to be free: photography, literacy, and mass culture
- 5 The lure of modernity
- Epilogue: ghosts: photography and the modern
- Bibliographic survey