About the Author:
Stephen White operated the Stephen White Gallery in Los Angeles from 1975 to 1990. The images selected for "The Photograph and the American Dream" are part of his extensive private collection. White has co-curated two other museum exhibitions, "John Thomson, A Window to the Orient" and "Parallels and Contrasts".
Andreas Bluhm is the Head of Exhibitions and Display at the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam. He has organized and co-curated several exhibitions including "The Color of Sculpture 1840-1910" and "Light! The Industrial Age 1750-1900".
From Library Journal:
White, a collector of early photography, worked with the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam to develop the exhibition cataloged here, and a significant part of his treasure made the show possible. From "American Identities" to the "City Rises," this visual saga is organized well; we see a century of Americans moving across the land, cultivating farms, joining in town building, developing industries, and getting hooked on transportation. Many of the images are so antique that this look at U.S. history becomes a visit to another world, one in which the tools of existence are primitive but sheer will can prevail. The volume lets its content unfold, relying on themes that are broad enough to place what could otherwise be random old photographs into a story told by people who simply looked at the camera while living their lives. The vastness of America, its wild and open mid-section, and the eventual organizing of people, places, and purpose into cities are all depicted very well. Bill Clinton contributes a foreword that he uses to remind us that he became the President from Hope, AR; it might have been nice to have heard from somebody in Mohall, ND, instead. Recommended. David Bryant, New Canaan Lib., CT
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