The Power of Photography: How Photographs Changed Our Lives - Softcover

Goldberg, Vicki

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1558594671 ISBN 13: 9781558594678

Publisher: Abbeville Press, 1993

Synopsis

The Power of Photography is a seminal work of such importance that it should become mandatory reading in the fields of communications, media, photography, and sociology. Taking specific images from the history of photography. Vicki Goldberg weaves her analysis of the impact that specific images have had on society. The quality of research and Goldberg's keen perception, along with her personable writing style, combine to keep the reader interested and entranced. . .Unquestionably the only book of its kind. --Choice

About this title

About the Author:

Vicki Goldberg is the author of "The Power of Photography: How Photographs Changed Our Lives" and editor of "Photography in Print: Writings from 1816 to the Present". She writes on photography for the "New York Times", "Vanity Fair", "American Photo", and other publications.

From Library Journal:

This book, which covers the same territory as Gail Buckland's First Photographs ( LJ 1/15/81) and Lorraine Monk's Photographs That Changed the World ( LJ 1/90), includes familiar images: Brady and Gardner's Civil War dead, Dorothea Lange's "Migrant Mother," and Sam Shere's exploding "Hindenberg." It is a pastiche of 19th- and 20th-century photographs and their stories, retold in epigrammatic style. Interested lay readers will be fascinated by the images in this book, but subject specialists will find the treatment more journalistic than analytical or scholarly. The text and photos published here do not seem to be the result of Goldberg's own primary-source research and original discoveries. Instead, she compiles material first published by photohistorians and other researchers in scholarly essays and books. Citations are imprecise; one footnote usually covers an entire paragraph of sources. Captions omit process and dimension information. The lack of a separate bibliography in a book that relies so heavily on the work of others is disappointing and frustrating.
- Kathleen Collins, Great Barrington, Mass.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Abbeville Press
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 1558594671
• ISBN 13: 9781558594678
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288