The changing face of portrait photography
Subtitle: from daguerreotype to digital / Shannon Perich
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Smithsonian Books; National Museum of American History
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 159
ISBN-13: 9781588342744
Subjects: Portrait photography; History; PHOTOGRAPHY / General; PHOTOGRAPHY / History; PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Portraits
Description: "A richly illustrated volume examines ten photographers' portrait work and explores the power of the portrait and the role it plays in our personal and national identities.  The Changing Face of Portrait Photography explores ten groups of portraits selected from within the Smithsonian National Museum of American History's Photographic History Collection. The selections represent work by specific photographers with diverse relationships to portraiture, and through their sampling take a focused look at changing convention, theory, and technologies"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.