Photography
Subtitle: a cultural history
By: Mary Warner Marien
Edition: 3rd ed.
Publisher: Pearson Prentice Hall
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Upper Saddle River, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 552
ISBN-13: 9780205708000
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Pt. 1. Photography's double invention.  The origin of photography (to 1839) ; The second invention of photography (1839-1854) ; Philosophy and practice: a threat to art?; title: Pt. 2. The expanding domain (1854-1880).  Popular photography and the aims of art ; Imaging of the social world ; Science and social science ; Philosophy and practice: "superseded by reality"; title: Pt. 3. Photography and modernity (1880-1918).  The great divide ; Modern life ; Philosophy and practice: the real thing; title: Pt. 4. A new vision (1918-1945).  Art and the age of mass media ; Social science, social change, and the camera ; Philosophy and practice: the "common man" and the end of media utopia; title: Pt. 5. Through the lens of culture (1945-1975).  The human family ; The West and the Cold War ; Philosophy and practice: purity and diversity; title: Pt. 6. Convergences (1975 to the present).  Globalism, technology, and social change ; The postmodern view ; Into the twenty-first century ; Philosophy and practice: re-membering; title: Epilogue; title: Glossary; title: Timeline.