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A richly illustrated volume examines the portrait work of Dorthea lange, Richard Avedon, Robert Weingarten, George K. Warren, Julia Margaret Cameron, the Barr & Wright Studio, Gertrude Käseebier, Nickolas Muray, Henry Horenstein, and Lauren Greenfiled. The Changing Face of Portrait Photography explores the power of the portrait and the role it plays in our personal and national identities.
The Changing Face of Portrait Photography explores ten groups of portraits selected from within the...
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Shannon Thomas Perich is an associate curator in the Photographic History Collection at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. She is the author of Richard Avedon's The Kennedy's: Portrait of a Family. She lives in Washington, DC.
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Perich, associate curator of the Smithsonian’s Photographic History Collection, looks at how photographic subjects, techniques, uses, and approaches have changed from the mid-19th to the 21st century by studying nine iconic photographers: Juliet Margaret Cameron, Dorothea Lange, Richard Avedon, George K. Warren, Gertrude Käsebier, Nicholas Murray, Henry Horenstein, Lauren Greenfield, and Robert Weingarten. Perich’s fine introduction notes how photographs represents “a complex balance of culture, technology, artistic intention, personal...
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- PublisherSmithsonian Books
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 1588342743
- ISBN 13 9781588342744
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages176
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