The Big Picture America in Panorama /anglais - Couverture rigide

Sapan, Josh

 
9781616891657: The Big Picture America in Panorama /anglais
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1616891653 ISBN 13 : 9781616891657
Editeur : Princeton Architectural Press, 2013

Synopsis

At the turn of the twentieth century, photographic technology and an American culture of optimism and self-celebration combined to create what Luc Sante calls the "strange and compelling medium" of panoramic group photography. Organizations famed and obscure-from the Anti-Saloon League of America and the troops at Camp Sevier during the Great War to the members of the Midget Swing Review-commissioned photographers to produce images that sometimes encompassed a full 360 degrees. No public event-a circus, a train wreck, or the Army-Navy football game-was too grand or eccentric to deserve its own wide-angle commemoration. The photographs compose a portrait of a society on the cusp of sweeping change, as their details preserve the enduring humanity of their subjects: a bathing beauty tosses her curls; a group of cross-dressing women smile enigmatically at an off-camera friend; children at play on a summertime lawn appear only as blurs behind an Ohio town meeting. The Big Picture gathers nearly one hundred of these fascinating images, most never before published, bringing the shared experience of American history from the late nineteenth century to the WWII era to life.

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À propos de l'auteur

Josh Sapan is the CEO of Rainbow Media. Programming developed during his time includes the TV series Mad Men, Breaking Bad and many others. The channels, movies, documentaries and series created under his guidance have won multiple awards including Emmys, Golden Globes, Oscars and Peabodys. He serves on the board of trustees of the Museum of the Moving Image. He is the author of one book and his poetry has appeared in many literary journals.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

At the turn of the twentieth century, photographic technology and an American culture of optimism and self-celebration combined to create what Luc Sante calls the "strange and compelling medium" of panoramic group photography. Organizations famed and obscure-from the Anti-Saloon League of America and the troops at Camp Sevier during the Great War to the members of the Midget Swing Review-commissioned photographers to produce images that sometimes encompassed a full 360 degrees. No public event-a circus, a train wreck, or the Army-Navy football game-was too grand or eccentric to deserve its own wide-angle commemoration. The photographs compose a portrait of a society on the cusp of sweeping change, as their details preserve the enduring humanity of their subjects: a bathing beauty tosses her curls; a group of cross-dressing women smile enigmatically at an off-camera friend; children at play on a summertime lawn appear only as blurs behind an Ohio town meeting. The Big Picture gathers nearly one hundred of these fascinating images, most never before published, bringing the shared experience of American history from the late nineteenth century to the WWII era to life.

Les informations fournies dans la section « A propos du livre » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.

Éditeur
Princeton Architectural Press
Date d'édition
2013
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1616891653
ISBN 13 
9781616891657
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
128
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