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`A fine introduction, and stimulating even to readers already familiar with the riches of American camera work.’ Professor Mick Gidley, University of Leeds

‘What a terrific book! . . . Rich references to literature, history, art, and popular culture make this story come alive.’ Mary Panzer, author of Mathew Brady and the Image of History, and former curator of Photography at the Smithsonian Institute’s National Portrait Gallery

This comprehensive new survey places American photography in its cultural context for the first time. Prize-winning author, Miles Orvell, examines this fascinating subject through portraiture and landscape photography, family albums and memory, analyzing the particular way in which American photographers view the world around them-from Alfred Stieglitz to Walker Evans, Andy Warhol to Cindy Sherman.

Orvell presents a clear overview of the changing nature of photographic thinking and practice over the past 150 years, exploring the nature of photographic exploitation, experimental techniques, the power of the photograph to shock, and whether we can subscribe to the notion of photographic `truth’.

Author: Miles Orvell, English, Anthology.

Specifications: Softcover, 256 Pages, 24x17cm
, ISBN: 0 19 284271 4 .

Price (ZA) R175.00

Keywords: Alfred Stieglitz, Andy Warhol, Bookstore, Cindy Sherman, International, Photography, Walker-Evans