Contesting Images: Photography and the World's Columbian Exposition - Couverture souple

Brown, Julie K.

 
9780816514106: Contesting Images: Photography and the World's Columbian Exposition

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Contesting Images When the world's Columbian Exposition opened in Chicago in 1893, photography was just over fifty years old and already a technology in transition. The use of dryplates had begun to simplify the photographic process, and Eastman Kodak's introduction of handheld cameras had begun to democratize the medium. The prevalence of photography at the Exposition further demonstrated this transition; not only were photographs used in innovate ways and on a scale never attempted at previous exhibitions, there were also competing uses of photography at the fair. Contesting Images reveals the intricately woven presence of photography at the Exposition. Exhibit by exhibit -...

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9780816513826: Contesting Images: Photography and the World's Columbian Exposition

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ISBN 10 :  0816513821 ISBN 13 :  9780816513826
Editeur : University of Arizona Press, 1994
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