Against the odds : women pioneers in the first hundred years of photography / Martin W. Sandler.
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TextPublication details: New York : Rizzoli, 2002.Description: x, 188 p. : ill. ; 23 x 28 cmISBN: - 0847823040 (hc: alk. paper)
- 770.92 SAN
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Standard Loan | LSAD Library Main Collection | 770.92 SAN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 39002000143934 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The work of over 30 groundbreaking 19th and 20th century American women photographers including Dorothea Lange, Lotte Jacobi, Margaret Bourke-White, Catherine Barnes Ward, Frances Benjamin Johnston. Until now, women's critical role in the early years of American photography's history has been largely ignored.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 182-183) and index.
Beginnings -- Portraiture -- Photography as art -- The documentary eye -- Photographing the native Americans -- Landscape and nature -- For the printed page -- Experimentation/innovation.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Acknowledgments (p. viii)
- Preface (p. ix)
- 1. Beginnings (p. 2)
- 2. Portraiture (p. 30)
- 3. Photography as Art (p. 48)
- 4. The Documentary Eye (p. 70)
- 5. Photographing the Native Americans (p. 98)
- 6. Landscape and Nature (p. 114)
- 7. For the Printed Page (p. 140)
- 8. Experimentation/Innovation (p. 168)
- Bibliography (p. 182)
- Index (p. 184)
- Photo credits (p. 188)
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Martin W. Sandler is the author of Lincoln Through the Lens and The Dust Bowl Through the Lens. He has won five Emmy Awards for his writing for television and is the author of more than sixty books, two of which have been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Among Sandler's other books are the six volumes in his award-winning Library of Congress American History Series for Young People, a series which has sold more than 500,000 copies. Other books by Mr. Sandler include: Island of Hope: The Story of Ellis Island, Trapped in Ice, The Story of American Photography, The Vaqueros, America: A Celebration, and This Was America.
Martin Sandler has taught American history and American studies at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and at Smith College. In 2014 his title, Imprisoned: The Betrayal of Japanese Americans during World War II, made The New York Times Best Seller List.
(Bowker Author Biography)