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2003

Format:	Book
Author:	Orvell, Miles.
Title:	American photography / Miles Orvell.
Publisher, Date:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
Description:	256 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Summary:	"This comprehensive new survey places American photography in its cultural context for the first time. Prize-winning author, Miles Orvell, examines this fascinating subject through portraiture and landscape photography, family albums and memory, analyzing the particular way in which American photographers view the world around them - from Alfred Stieglitz to Walker Evans, Andy Warhol to Cindy Sherman."--Jacket.
Series:	Oxford history of art Oxford history of art.
Subjects:	Photography -- United States -- History -- 20th century. Photography -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-232) and index.
Contents:	Ch. 1. Introduction -- Ch. 2. Presenting the Self -- Ch. 3. Viewing the Landscape -- Ch. 4. Seeing and Believing -- Ch. 5. A Photographic Art -- Ch. 6. Photography and Society -- Ch. 7. Versions of the Self: Memory, Identity, Autobiography -- Ch. 8. Photographing Fictions -- Ch. 9. Photography and the Image World -- Ch. 10. Conclusion: Post-photography.
Web Site:	Table of contents Contributor biographical information Publisher description
LCCN:	2003273142
ISBN:	0192842714 9780192842718
Other Number:	51315214
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Call Number:	770.973 Orvell

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