Photography's multiple roles : art, document, market, science / Denise Miller ... [et al.].
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TextPublication details: Chicago : Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College ; New York : Dap, Inc., c1998.Description: 254 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cmISBN: - 0965888711 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 9780965888714 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 096588872X (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780965888721 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- Museum of Contemporary Photography (Columbia College (Chicago, Ill.)) -- Photograph collections -- Catalogs
- Museum of Contemporary Photography (Columbia College (Chicago, Ill.)) -- Collections de photographies -- Catalogues
- Photographic criticism
- Photography -- United States
- Photograph collections -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Catalogs
- Critique photographique
- Photographie -- États-Unis
- Fotografie
- 7.150
- 770.1 MIL
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Standard Loan | LSAD Library Main Collection | 770.1 MIL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 39002100439067 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
This book explores the multiple roles of photography as viewed through perhaps the single most important collection of American photography of the 1960s, 70s, 80s and 90s -- the permanent collection of The Museum of Contemporary Photography. Isolating the development of postwar photography into four major roles -- artistic expression, documentation, commercial industry, and scientific tool -- this book includes essays by renowned scholars, and features 170 images from such photographers as Diane Arbus, John Coplans, Robert Frank, Dorothea Lange, Lee Friedlander, Irving Penn, Alfredo Jaar, Fazal Sheikh and many more. As an instructive primer on four decades of photography, as a work of extensive research and scholarship, or simply as an unprecedented assemblage of great photography, Photography's Multiple Roles is a monumental and accessible work.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword / John Mulvany. -- Acknowledgments / Denise Miller. -- Collecting American and US-resident photography as art + idea / Denise Miller. -- A hundred different stories: The art of photography / Eugenia Parry. -- Documentary photography: Past + present / Naomi Rosenblum. -- Professional and commercial photography / Rod Slemmons. -- Photography and science: Conspirators / F. David Peat. -- Spaces for the self: The symbolic imagery of place / Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. -- Portraiture: A process of self-discovery / Ed Paschke. -- The city: Harbor of humanity / Franz Schulze. -- Photographers' biographies / AnJanette Brush.
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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (pronounced "ME-high CHICK-sent-me-high-ee) is a professor and former chairman of the Department of English at the University of Chicago. His writings have focused on models of enjoyment and how various people access their creative potential. The idea of creative potential, which Csikszentmihalyi terms "flow" has become increasingly popular in the public sector. His 1993 book, Flow, inspired Jimmy Johnson then coach of the World Champion Dallas Cowboys, and was the subject of a feature story during that year's Super Bowl television broadcast.His ideas have also been touted by President Clinton, who called Csikszentmihalyi one of his favorite authors, Newt Gingrich, who put his work on the reading list for a political planning committee, and corporations and cultural institutions, such as Volvo in Sweden and the Chicago Park District. He has published articles in a variety of magazines, including Psychology Today, The New York Times, Omni, and Wired and has made appearances on television in the U.S. and Europe.
Csikszentmihalyi currently serves on boards and commissions for the U.S. Departments of Labor and Education, and the Social Science Research Council. He has held visiting professorships at universities in the United States, Canada, Brazil, Italy, and Finland. He received the1990 NRPA National Research (Roosevelt) Award, in addition to two Senior Fulbright Fellowships.
Besides Flow, he has also written Beyond Boredom and Anxiety and Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention, in which he applies his "flow" theory to various inventors, scientists, and artists to determine how and why they achieve "flow."
(Bowker Author Biography)