How we are : photographing Britain : from the 1840s to the present

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How we are : photographing Britain : from the 1840s to the present

Val Williams and Susan Bright ; with essays by Gerry Badger and Martin Parr, Kevin Jackson

Tate, c2007

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Exhibition catalogue

[2007年5月22日-9月2日:Tate Britain](オンライン), 入手先<http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/exhibitions/howweare/>, (参照2007-07-04)

Selected biographies: p. [208]-223

List of exhibited works: p. 224-234

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This is the first book to tell the story of British photography as a coherent whole, from the pioneers of the early nineteenth century to photographers today who may display their images on websites, as projections, on computer screens or on i-Pods. The authors have travelled the length and breadth of the UK, researching both well-known and forgotten ouevres and uncovering many lost masterpieces. As well as the famous names - William Henry Fox Talbot, Lewis Carroll, Julia Margaret Cameron, Bill Brandt, Madame Yeronde, Angus McBean, Susan Lipper and Tom Hunter among them - they have examined post-cards, family albums, photographic illustrations in books, medical photographs, war-time propoganda and social documents. Previous imbalances in the available history of photography have been corrected, not least by the inclusion of women photographers and photographers from Britain's ethnic minorities. Through their exhaustive research the authors demonstrate the extraordinary range and diversity of roles that photography has played in British cultural life over the past one and half centuries.

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Details

  • NCID
    BA82306243
  • ISBN
    • 9781854377142
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    London
  • Pages/Volumes
    240 p.
  • Size
    26 cm
  • Subject Headings
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