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American photographs : the first century from the Isaacs collection in the National Museum of American Art / Merry A. Foresta.

Washington, D.C. : National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution : Smithsonian Institution Press, [1996]

©1996

171 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm

In the nineteenth century, people from all walks of life embraced the new medium of photography with unparalleled enthusiasm. Here was a medium, it was proposed, that could serve as a mirror of nature, suggesting new possibilities to artists. For the average citizen, less concerned with art or science, the medium offered a satisfying way to record his or her private world - family, friends, homes, and farms. All of these aspirations and commonplace interests converge in the picture of nineteenth-century America vividly brought to life in the National Museum of American Art's Charles Isaacs Collection. American Photographs: The First Century presents a wide-ranging selection of photographs from this collection, including Civil War images by Alexander Gardner and the Mathew Brady Studio and spectacular western landscapes by Timothy O'Sullivan and William Henry Jackson. Seventy-nine colorplates are supplemented by over a hundred four-color images. More than two-thirds of these works are being reproduced for the first time. A deliberate effort has been made to mix familiar and lesser-known photographers, styles of work, and a variety of processes in order to explore ideas about the influence of photographic culture in America during the years from 1839 to 1939.

National Museum of American Art (U.S.) -- Exhibitions.

Photography, Artistic -- Exhibitions.

Photography -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Exhibitions.

Catalogs.

Exhibition catalogs.

Foresta, Merry A., curator.

National Museum of American Art (U.S.)

Catalog of an exhibition held at the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, from Nov. 22, 1996-Apr. 20, 1997.

Includes photographs by Ansel Adams, Thomas Anshutz, George Barker, George N. Barnard, William Bell, Charles Bierstadt, Albert Bisbee, Elias A. Bonine, Henry Bosse, Brady Studio, Anne W. Brigman, John G. Bullock, John Chislett, Churchill and Denison Studio, William L. Cullen, Imogen Cunningham, Dwight A. Davis, E.E. Dickinson, John L. Dunmore and George Critcherson, Rudolf Eickemeyer, Jr., O.D. Finch, James Ford, J.R. Foster, Egbert Guy Fowx, Alexander Gardner, Laura Gilpin, Forman Hanna, O. Pierre Havens, Paul Burty Haviland, Frank Jay Haynes, Alex Hesler, John K. Hillers, Lewis Hine, William H. Jackson, Bertha Jacques, Jones and Brother, Gertrude Käsebier, Joseph T. Keiley, John Frank Keith, Kellogg Brothers, Langill & Darling, William H. Martin, Samuel Masury, James McClees, Charles L. Mitchell, Henry P. Moore, John Moran, William James Mullins, Eadweard Muybridge, Robert Newell, Timothy O'Sullivan, Gotthelf Pach, William B. Post, William H. Rau, John Reeke, Isaac A. Rehn, James Bartlett Rich, Frank A. Rinehart, Andrew Joseph Russell, Lewis Morris Rutherfurd, Samuel W. Sawyer, George Seeley, Clara Estelle Sipprell, Stadler Photographing Company, Edward Steichen, Seneca Ray Stoddard, William Stroud, Karl Struss, Louis Comfort Tiffany, Doris Ulmann, Underwood & Underwood, William Lyman Underwood, Julian Vannerson, Adam Clark Vroman, George Kendall Warren, Carleton E. Watkins, Anna K. Weaver, Charles Leander Weed, John Adams Whipple, Clarence H. White, Franklin White, Joel E. Whitney, Williams Studio, and Zintsmaster Studio. -- "Catalogue of the Exhibition," p.119-165.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-171).

A complementary online exhibit is available from the Smithsonian American Art Museum Web page.

Also issued online.

Foreword / Elizabeth Brown -- American Photographs: The First Century / Merry A. Foresta -- Catalogue of the Exhibition -- Afterword / Charles Isaacs.

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