Disappearing Witness
Subtitle: Change in Twentieth-Century American Photography
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press; Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: July 30, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780801871672
Subjects: History of specific subjects; Photographs: collections; 20th century; United States; History; Photo Essays; USA; Criticism; Art / General; General; Photography
First sentence: TO SPEAK ABOUT PHOTOGRAPHY in general has become almost impossible.
Description: "In Disappearing Witness, photographer and art historian Gretchen Garner chronicles the transformation, from the introduction of the 35-millimeter camera in the 1920s to the digital photography of today. Accompanied by over 125 key works in the history of photography - fine-art, documentary, and editorial - her thoughtful and enlightening discussion traces American photography's aesthetic, commercial, and technological changes, as the medium's primary role of spontaneous witness gradually gave way to contrived arrangement and artistic invention."--Jacket.