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Photography: A Cultural History | 
 enlarge | Author: Mary Warner Marien
Publisher: Laurence King Publishing
Category: Book
List Price: $82.65
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Avg. Customer Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 5536718
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 544
Shipping Weight (lbs): 5.7
Dimensions (in): 11.8 x 9 x 1.9
ISBN: 1856692884
Dewey Decimal Number: 770
EAN: 9781856692885
ASIN: 1856692884
Publication Date: October 2002
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Product Description
This is the first survey of international photography to examine the discipline across the full range of its uses by professionals and amateurs. Each of the eight chapters takes a strict time frame of, say, fifteen to thirty years in which to examine the medium through the lenses of art, science, social science, travel, war, mass media and individual practitioners. The coverage is truly global including rarely seen work from Latin America, Africa, China, Japan, India, and Russia as well as the more established canon of Europe and the United States. Seminal figures, from Julia Margaret Cameron to Cindy Sherman, are profiled, but the emphasis is more on key ideas than individuals. So the reader follows such debates as the nature of discovery/invention, the effect of mass media on morality, the use of imagery as a tool of Western colonialism, and the role of the photograph in advertising, radical politics and family life.
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 Where was the copy editor? November 14, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
In general, this book reads like a research paper. I guess that's to be expected considering it's a textbook. That doesn't bother me too much. What does bother me, however, are the numerous sloppy little errors I've come across while reading it. It may seem nitpicky to list them, but I think that books in general (and most especially academic textbooks) should be held to a high standard of accuracy, right down to the basic editing of text.
A sampling of some errors I've come across in the second addition: Page 50: "None of Anthony's daguerreotypes survives, however." ("Survives" should be "survive"). Page 136, caption for figure 3.73: "Anascizi" should be "Anasazi". That one's particularly egregious. Page 206: "He often assuming a false identity, to photograph children at work in factories, mines, canneries, and mills." (Do I need to point out what's wrong with that sentence?)
 textbook May 17, 2008
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
great condition thanks
Photography: A Cultural History
 Very hard to read December 9, 2007
4 out of 9 found this review helpful
I found photography a Cultural History a very hard to read book. The author seems to jump from subject to subject and from photographer to photographer without any cohesive meaning. The chapters get harder to read as you move towards the later chapters, unfortunately. I don't see what is the sense to mentioning what a photogrpher did or said in a 2 or 3 sentence paragraph, then jump to another photographer and do the same, then jump to another one and do the same and so on and so on. Also, why is the photographers years of existence printed next to each photographers name in parenthesis ? This only makes the book even harder to read. I bought the book because I'm a photography student and the book is mandatory for one of the required courses, but if it was up to me, I would rather use and purchase "The History of Photography" written By Beaumont Newhall even though it is out of date. This was the book originally used in the past, but a few years ago allot of schools decided to switch to the Warner Marien book which I think was a big mistake.
Photography: A cultural history (trade version) September 29, 2007
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
An exellent source. The price was unbeatable. At school a smaller version of this book was over $100 and I paid less than $50for a more complete book!
excellent resource! March 23, 2006
9 out of 13 found this review helpful
i had to buy this for class, and for once it isn't a "textbook" ! finally an art textbook that doubles as a coffee table book, and one you can read. very good text - easy, and not too "academic." highly recommend.
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