Grove Art Guide to Photography / Edition 1

by Tanya Sheehan

Overview

A field guide for students, instructors, and scholars, the Grove Art Guide to Photography provides a thorough overview of photography's history, from the early 19th century to the present. This wide-ranging volume examines photographic practices around the world and highlights key movements and concepts that define the field. It includes 28 geographical and topical surveys, covering areas such as documentary photography, street photography, vernacular photography, and fashion photography, each with carefully selected bibliographies. 75 additional biographies and a glossary of photographic processes and techniques round out this fully illustrated, essential introduction to the study of photography.

Written by leading international scholars, Grove Art Guides provide authoritative information on important areas of art and architectural history. Grove Art Guides offer a curated set of articles selected by volume editors from the larger Grove dictionary available online and provide in-depth yet accessible content for anyone interested in the study of art. Beautifully illustrated and composed, Grove Art Guides serve not only as exceptional foundation texts but also as access points to further study in the full dictionary and other resources available in Oxford Art Online.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780190495343
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	01/06/2017
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	456
Product dimensions:	6.50(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Tanya Sheehan is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Art at Colby College. She is the author of Doctored: The Medicine of Photography in Nineteenth-Century America (2011), editor of Photography, History, Difference (2014), and co-editor of Photography and Its Origins (2015). Since 2015 she has served as editor of the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art Journal.

Table of Contents

Grove Art Guide to Photography

A survey history of photography

National and regional histories of photography

AFRICA AND THE MIDDLE EAST
Photography in Africa
Photography in the Middle East
Photography in Turkey

AMERICAS
Photography in Canada
Photography in Mexico
Native North American Photography

AUSTRALASIA
Photography in Australia
Photography in New Zealand

EAST ASIA
Photography in China
Photography in Japan
Photography in Korea

EUROPE
Photography in Ireland
Photography in Italy
Photography in Norway

Special topics in photography

Anthropology and Photography
Architectural Photography
Digital Photography
Documentary Photography
Fashion Photography
Photobook
Photography Theory
Photojournalism
Pictorialism
Science and Photography
Street Photography
Vernacular Photography
War Photography
Women and Photography

Biographies of photographers

Photographic processes and materials

Index