Author: Maddow, Ben et. al
Title: Faces: A Narrative History of the Portrait in Photography
Description: Boston, MA, New York Graphic Society, 1977. Hardcover. Black cloth with silver lettering; black DJ with white lettering; 540 pp. Numerous bw plates. Contents include: A defiance of time: the tradition of portraiture -- The third eye: the beginnings of photography -- The sun as artist: calotype and daguerreotype -- A democracy of portraits: America in the nineteenth century -- Trailing clouds of glory: Victorian England -- Intellectual barricades: the nineteenth century in France -- Nature improved I: pictorialism in Europe -- Nature improved II: pictorialism in America -- Class and conscience I: Europe -- Class and conscience II: America -- Class and conscience III: America into the thirties and beyond -- Class and conscience IV: America now -- Inside or outside I: the studio portrait in the twentieth century -- Inside or outside II: circle of the famous -- Inside or outside III: intimate visions -- Stills from an infinite movie: street portraits. VG-/VG- (light foxing to text block, pages are otherwise clean and clear. Light scuffing to dust jacket) .

Keywords: Portraiture ; Portraiture ; ;


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