Included in this seminal work are essays on the western American daguerreotype, contemporary daguerreotypy, the American autochrome, the art of the cyanotype, European pictorialism, and American symbolism in photography. Wood's fresh use of the diaries and journals of gold field miners and his penetrating vision of the near extermination of indigenous peoples - "the American holocaust" - enable him to contrast between the reality and the mythology manifested in the faces of the photographed participants. His equally ...
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Included in this seminal work are essays on the western American daguerreotype, contemporary daguerreotypy, the American autochrome, the art of the cyanotype, European pictorialism, and American symbolism in photography. Wood's fresh use of the diaries and journals of gold field miners and his penetrating vision of the near extermination of indigenous peoples - "the American holocaust" - enable him to contrast between the reality and the mythology manifested in the faces of the photographed participants. His equally ingenious view of American symbolist photography and the primary myth to which most of this work refers, the Grail Quest, leads him to some striking conclusions in the context of "Visions of Spirituality and Desire." His survey both of the history of the cyanotype process and of a contemporary practitioner, his dissenting opinion of the controlling influence of Alfred Stieglitz on the pictorialist movement, and his groundbreaking view of the autochrome process in America are still other important and unique contributions to the field of photographic history.
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Good. Little wear, small creases and discolouration to the jacket. Boards and pages in nice condition, shipped from the UK. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 206 p.
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Fine in Fine jacket. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Essays on the western American daguerreotype, contemporary daguerreotypy, the American autochrome, the art of cyanotype, European pictorialism, and American symbolism in photography.
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Fine in Near Fine jacket. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall First Edition. Fine/Near Fine. Hardcover; quarto; brown cloth; silver gilt spine titles; 191 pp.; profusely illustrated in color and b/w; slight wear to jacket; else a lovely, clean and crisp copy.
