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050 00 $aTR642$b.S83 2001
082 00 $a770/.973/09034$221
100 1 $aSternberger, Paul Spencer,$d1966-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n00013119
245 10 $aBetween amateur and aesthete :$bthe legitimization of photography as art in America, 1880-1900 /$cPaul Spencer Sternberger.
246 18 $aBetween amateur & aesthete
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aAlbuquerque :$bUniversity of New Mexico Press,$c[2001], ©2001.
300 $axxiii, 204 pages :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [169]-195) and index.
520 1 $a"The Popularization of amateur photography and the recognition of photography as an art framed the last two decades of the nineteenth century. Until now, these crucial events in the history of photography surprisingly have been unexamined. Paul Sternberger offers the first thorough investigation of the part played by the amateur photographer and of the struggle to legitimize photography as an art.
520 8 $aHe shows that the change in the perception of photography resulted not from a linear evolution but from an intricate, divergent, and often conflicting barrage of strategies. He also re-evaluates the role of Alfred Stieglitz and his use of Pictorialism as a means to escape photography's reputation as "merely truth." The photographic illustrations include some by the well-known names of the period - Stieglitz, Steichen, Peter Henry Emerson - and many by photographers now long forgotten. This fascinating study shows the late nineteenth century to have been a complex time for both photographic theory and practice in America.
520 8 $aAt the same time it enlarges our understanding of photographic history."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aPhotography, Artistic$xPhilosophy.
650 0 $aLandscape photography$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aArt and photography$zUnited States.
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