Item Number: 111137 Title: Architecture in Nineteenth Century Photographs : Essays on Reading a Collection Author: Nilsen, Micheline Price: Not Available ISBN: 9781409409045 Description: Aldershot: Ashgate, 2011. 24cm., hardcover, 202pp. illus. Summary: Revealing that nineteenth-century photography goes beyond the functional to reflect the aesthetic, intellectual, and cultural concerns of the time, this study proposes that each photographic image of architecture be studied both as a primary visual document and an object of aesthetic inquiry. This multi-faceted approach drives Architecture in Nineteenth Century Photographs: Essays on Reading a Collection. Despite three decades of post-colonial, post-structuralist and gender-conscious criticism, the study of architectural photography continues to privilege technical virtuosity. This volume offers a thematic exploration of the material, and a socio-historical examination that allows consideration of questions that have not been addressed comprehensively before in a single publication. Themes include exoticism and "armchair tourism"; the absence of women from architectural photography; the role of photographs as commodities; vernacular architecture and the picturesque; and historic preservation, urban renewal, and nationalism. Micheline Nilsen analyzes photographs from France and England-the two countries where photography was invented-and from around the world, representing a corpus of over 10,000 photographs from the Janos Scholz Collection of Nineteenth-Century Photographs of the Snite Museum of Art at the University of Notre Dame. Contents: Introduction; Photography as medium; Documenting historic buildings; Urban renewal; Photographs of historical events and their imprint on the built environment; Photographs of progress and industry; Constructing new buildings; Photographing the 'other'; Vernacular architecture; Historic preservation; Tourism and photographs. We regret to inform you that this title is no longer available. P.O. Box 3904, Kingston, New York 12402 US Phone: 845-331-8519 Fax: 845-331-0852 Email: michael@artbooks.com |
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