Capturing Light: Masterpieces of California Photography, 1850-2000 - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393049930 ISBN 13: 9780393049930

Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc, 2001

Synopsis

From rare daguerreotypes of gold prospectors to glamour shots of Hollywood starlets, an extensive survey of the master photographers who have shaped the consciousness of the state of California and the nation for more than a century and a half provides some two hundred color plates that celebrate 150 years of photographic art.

About this title

About the Author:

Drew Heath Johnson is curator of fine art photography at the Oakland Museum of California, a world-renowned institution devoted to the art, history, and natural science of the Golden State.

From Library Journal:

This book accompanies an exhibit that opened in March 2001 at the Oakland Museum, where Johnson is curator of fine art photography. Arranged chronologically along with the photographs are essays by five well-known photohistorians and critics: Therese Thau Heyman (who built the photography collection at the Oakland Museum from the 1960s), Peter Palmquist, Naomi Rosenblum, Sally Stein, and Andy Grundberg. "Everything worth photographing is in California," observed Edward Weston, and most of the greatest American photographers made photographs here. Though resident photographers felt ignored by mainstream, East Coast aesthetic arbiters, even at the end of the 19th century they were producing work that made Stieglitz's circle seem conservative. This survey presents fine examples of every process and period, from the earliest daguerreotypes to the work of highly experimental contemporary photographers. Perhaps its greatest feature is its focus on less familiar practitioners and their work: early Chinese studios, Gustavus Fagerstein's Yosemite photographs of the 1880s, Willard Worden's turn-of-the-century San Francisco, Alma Lavenson's images of children and her garden, John Paul Edward's industrial views, and Catherine Wagner's documentation of American classrooms. Highly recommended for photography, California history, and American studies collections. Kathleen Collins, Bank of America Corporate Archives, San Francisco
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About this edition

• Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0393049930
• ISBN 13: 9780393049930
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 384
• Editor: Johnson Drew Heath