Author: Berch, Bettina
Title: The Woman Behind the Lens: The Life and Work of Frances Benjamin Johnston, 1864-1952
Description: Charlottesville, University of Virginia Press, 2000. Hardcover. A gray caseboung book with black text down the spine. Pages: (14), 1-171, (1). Illustrated with black-and-white images. "Try to picture Mark Twain, or Uncle Remus, or even Theodore Roosevelt. More than likely, you have a Frances Benjamin Johnston image in your mind. Johnston was a significant--and arresting--figure in early twentieth-century photography, but few who know her images know much about the woman who made them. This first full-length biography--beautifully illustrated with forty examples of her work, including photographs of Hampton Institute (now Hampton University) and Tuskegee at the turn of the twentieth century, as well as images from Johnston's project on early vernacular architecture of the American South--explores both the surprising range of Johnston's talent and her high-stepping, controversial character. VG: Exlibray book. Stamp on half-title page. Stamp on last page. Sticker on back pasted end page. Stamp on bottom text block.

Keywords: Photography ; Johnston, Frances Benjamin ; ;


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