Download or read book The Photographic Legacy of Frances Benjamin Johnston written by Maria Elizabeth Ausherman and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2022-08-15 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "One of the first women to work in an emerging field dominated by men, Frances Benjamin Johnston (1864-1952) achieved acclaim in the late nineteenth century as an accomplished photographer. Her career spanned nearly seventy years, during which she became respected for her portraiture, artistic studies, photojournalism, and garden and architectural photography. She was instrumental in defining the medium and inspiring women to train in and appreciate photography. Though the socially well-connected Johnston was popular among prestigious celebrities of the day - she worked as the official White House photographer for five administrations - it is her monumental, nine-state survey of southern American architecture that stands as her most significant contribution to the history and development of photography both as art and as documentary. Drawing upon Johnston's original papers and photographs from the Library of Congress, Maria Ausherman's examination of this extraordinary photographer's career shows both the early origins of her style and vision and her attempts to change society through her art"--

Download or read book The Woman Behind the Lens written by Bettina Berch and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beautifully illustrated with 40 examples of her work, this first full-length biography explores Frances Benjamin Johnston's talent as a photographer, as well as her high-stepping, controversial character. 40 halftones.

Download or read book Frances Benjamin Johnston written by Constance W. Glenn and published by . This book was released on 1979-01-01 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Talent for Detail written by Frances Benjamin Johnston and published by Crown. This book was released on 1974 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Frances Benjamin Johnston Women of Class and Station written by Frances Benjamin Johnston and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Frances Benjamin Johnston written by Sarah Meister and published by . This book was released on 2019-05-21 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprised of 159 extraordinary platinum plates, Frances Benjamin Johnston's Hampton Album documents life at the Hampton Institute marking a pivotal moment in this historically black university's history . Frances Benjamin Johnston (American, 1864-1952), one of the first women in America to work as a professional photographer, was commissioned in 1899 to photograph the Hampton Institute, then a thirty year old institution dedicated to the practical and academic education of freed slaves and Native Americans. What became known as the Hampton Album - comprised of 159 platinum plates exhibited in 1900 at the Exposition Universelle in Paris - is Johnston's signature work, and has become a touchstone for contemporary historians and artists. The leather-bound album was discovered serendipitously by Lincoln Kirstein in a Washington, D.C. bookstore during World War II and donated to MoMA in 1965.

Download or read book Ambassadors of Progress written by Verna Posever Curtis and published by Library of Congress/Musie Dart Giverny Distributed by Univer. This book was released on 2001 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highlights the contributions of women to photographic history.

Download or read book A Talent for Detail written by Pete Daniel and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Her portrait work immortalized Susan B. Anthony, Joel Chandler Harris, Mark Twain, the Roosevelts, George Washington Carver, Alexander Graham Bell, Booker T. Washington, Admiral Dewey, President McKinley and many others. Women workers, coal miners, iron men, blacks, Indians, students and world expositions are the subjects of her photo-essays. Independent and successful, Frances Benjamin Johnston produced numerous self-portraits, documenting her unconventional life during the gilded age of post-Victorian America. A Talent for Detail is an historical record of America from 1889-1910; a gallery of the famous and the common people of that time, and a photobiography of an extraordinarily gifted woman."--Provided by publisher.

Download or read book Frances Benjamin Johnston written by Frances Benjamin Johnston and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Frances Benjamin Johnston written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Hampton Album written by Frances Benjamin Johnston and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected from an album of photographs orginally made for the Paris Exposition of 1900. Exhibited in the Edward Steichen Photography Center, Museum of Modern Art, in Jan. 1966.

Download or read book A History of Women Photographers written by Naomi Rosenblum and published by Abbeville Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive text on women in photography, now in an affordable paperback edition.

Download or read book Shot in Alabama written by Frances Osborn Robb and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2017-01-10 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sumptuously illustrated history of photography as practiced in the state from 1839 to 1941 offering a unique account of the birth and development of a significant documentary and artistic medium

Download or read book The Positive Image written by C. Jane Gover and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Positive Image tells the largely untold story of women photographers in turn of the century America. Women like Gertrude Käsebier, Frances Benjamin Johnston, Alice Austen, Catherine Weed Ward, and Eva Watson-Schütze were among thousands of women who as professional and amateur photographers sought personal, artistic, and professional fulfillment while still connected to the traditional domestic environment. These women created a positive experience for themselves in photography through an identifiable female network of women photographers, through membership in camera clubs, and in many cases, through their association with photography great Alfred Stieglitz. Theirs became an alliance between women, art, culture, and technology in a time of intense social change in the United States.

Download or read book Photographic Presidents written by Cara A. Finnegan and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Defining the Chief Executive via flash powder and selfie sticks Lincoln’s somber portraits. Lyndon Johnson’s swearing in. George W. Bush’s reaction to learning about the 9/11 attacks. Photography plays an indelible role in how we remember and define American presidents. Throughout history, presidents have actively participated in all aspects of photography, not only by sitting for photos but by taking and consuming them. Cara A. Finnegan ventures from a newly-discovered daguerreotype of John Quincy Adams to Barack Obama’s selfies to tell the stories of how presidents have participated in the medium’s transformative moments. As she shows, technological developments not only changed photography, but introduced new visual values that influence how we judge an image. At the same time, presidential photographs—as representations of leaders who symbolized the nation—sparked public debate on these values and their implications. An original journey through political history, Photographic Presidents reveals the intertwined evolution of an American institution and a medium that continues to define it.

Download or read book The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art written by Joan M. Marter and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2011 with total page 3140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arranged in alphabetical order, these 5 volumes encompass the history of the cultural development of America with over 2300 entries.

Download or read book CRM written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: