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Twentieth Century United States Photographers A Student's Guide
Kristin G. Congdon, Kara Kelley Hallmark
ISBN: 0-313-33561-3
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-33561-7
424 pages
Greenwood Press
Publication: 4/30/2008
List Price: $99.95 (UK Sterling Price: £68.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Ebook
Trim Size: 7 x 10
Subjects: Reviews:
  • "Each of the 75 entries includes a summary essay that incorporates biographical and career highlights along with a context for the photographer's work in photographic history. A short bibliography and a list of collections in which the work may be found are also furnished. Small black-and-white photographs accompany the entries, and a center section with select color photographs is featured. A glossary and index are provided along with a thoughtful introductory essay that reflects on the evolution of photography into its current role in modern life. . . . This book serves as an excellent introduction for those seeking a framework for understanding the development of American photography and an appreciation for some of the major contributors."
    —ARBA     3/1/2009
Description: Since the invention of the first camera through the advent of digital photography, men and women have sought to communicate a variety of messages and document a variety of experiences both personal and professional through their lenses. Hallmark and Congdon trace the lives of seventy-five American photographers who have had the most impact on the world of photography and the culture at large. Whether they are capturing strinking landscape scenes, terrible workplace conditions, the minute detail of a flower, a face, or an abstract image, these photographers tell viewers a story that is at the same time a historical record of the past and an interpretation of the future.

Photographers included in this volume: -Ansel Adams -Diane Arbus -Richard Avedon -Margaret Bourke-White -Edward Curtis -Walker Evans -Lewis Hine -Annie Leibovitz -Carm Little Turtle -Man Ray -Robert Mapplethorpe -Cindy Sherman -William Wegman -Edward Weston
About the Author: Kristin G. Congdon is a Professor of Art and Philosophy at the University of Central Florida. She has published extensively on the study of folk arts, community arts, and contemporary art issues. She is co-editor of several books. She is the 1998 and 1999 recipient of the Manual Barken Memorial Award for scholarship from the National Art Education and the 1998 Ziegfeld Award from the United States Society for Education Through Art for international work in the arts.

Kara Kelley Hallmark writes about the lives and work of visual artists. She has a BFA in art history, MA in art education, graduate certificate in gender studies, and is in the completion phase of her doctorate in art education and women's studies at Florida State University. Past publications include Artists from Latin American Cultures (Greenwood, 2002) also co-authored with Kristin G. Congdon. Other publications include papers for art education conferences and a desktop publication for the House of Blues folk art collection in Orlando, Florida. Born in Dallas, she now lives and works independently in Austin, Texas.
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