History Photography America
Is photography a part of the history of United States of America?
Like anything in art, photography is part of the media that tells the history of the world. So, yes.
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1880 Train, Hill City, Black Hills, South Dakota, United States of America, Photo Mugs 1880 Train, Hill City, Black Hills, South Dakota, United States of America, North America…. |
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A temple atop the Oval Palace, Ek Balam, Yucatan, Mexico, North America Photo Mugs A temple atop the Oval Palace, Ek Balam, Yucatan, Mexico, North America…. |
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A temple atop the Oval Palace, Ek Balam, Yucatan, Mexico, North America Photo Mugs A temple atop the Oval Palace, Ek Balam, Yucatan, Mexico, North America…. |
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The War: A Ken Burns Film $7.98 The soundtrack for The War, documentarian Ken Burns’s 2007 PBS series on World War II, alternates between earlier, wartime, and postwar material, all designed to complement the narrative. The material was clearly selected to evoke the mood of the era: Benny Goodman’s sextet tears off a hot 1942 “Wang Wang Blues,” and Count Basie lets fly with “Basie Boogie” (1941) and the prewar “How Long Blues.”… |
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A Moment in Time – A History of Photography in America $9.99 Teasured moments in the lives of ordinary people, as well as momentous historical events, have been captured in time and preserved for all ages, through the wondrous art of photography. This special production views hundreds of photographs and selected motion picture footage from 1860to the present, taken from the Library of Congress, The National Archives, George Eastman House, private collection… |
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Gandhi (Widescreen Two-Disc Collector’s Edition) $13.29 Sir Richard Attenborough’s 1982 multiple-Oscar winner (including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor for Ben Kingsley) is an engrossing, reverential look at the life of Mohandas K. Gandhi, who introduced the doctrine of nonviolent resistance to the colonized people of India and who ultimately gained the nation its independence. Kingsley is magnificent as Gandhi as he changes over the cour… |
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American Photography $18.19 Time travel at its best! American Photography: A Century of Images is a remarkably complete, high-caliber PBS presentation of who Americans were and are, using 20th-century images that capture everything from the everyday to the once-in-a-lifetime. While of course you’ll see many photographs, some familiar and some new, you’ll also learn about the history of our relationship with photography and t… |
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Drugs in Our Culture DVD (1960s) An Honest Look at Drug Use In America $4.99 Drugs in Our Culture is a clear, honest, and detailed depiction of drug use in the 1960s. The film is fairly even handed, especially for its time, and uses expert analysis to frame the (then) current picture of substance abuse and where it was expected to head. Drug abuse in school was a new and alarming problem that was facing America at this time. Marijuana is discussed in depth, but other more … |
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The American Townhouse $15.69 The American townhouse is one of the most popular house types in urban America. This comprehensive volume tours the reader through 25 stunning examples of townhouses and rowhouses from Boston to Brooklyn, St. Louis to San Francisco. Radek Kurzaj’s striking photographs complement a fascinating text by nationally recognized historic-house expert Kevin Murphy about the townhouse as cultural phenomena… |
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Photo Jigsaw Puzzle of Mount Rushmore from Robert Harding $24.99 Photo Puzzle, Mount Rushmore. Mount Rushmore, South Dakota, United States of America, North America. Chosen by Robert Harding. 10×14 Photo Puzzle with 252 pieces. Packed in black cardboard box of dimensions 5 5/8 x 7 5/8 x 1 1/5. Puzzle image 5×7 affixed to box top. Puzzle pieces printed on RA4 paper at 300 dpi. This item is shipped from our American lab…. |
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On Photography $81.25 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles On Photography is a 1977 collection of essays by Susan Sontag. It originally appeared as a series of essays in the New York Review of Books between 1973 and 1977. In the book, Sontag expresses her views on the history and presentday role of photography in capitalist societies as of the 1970s. Sontag discusses many examples of modern photography. Among these, she contrasts Diane Arbuss work with that of Depressionera documentary photography commissioned by the Farm Security Administration. She also explores the history of American photography in relation to the idealistic notions of America put forth by Walt Whitman and traces these ideas through to the increasingly cynical aesthetic notions of the 1970s, particularly in relation to Arbus and Andy Warhol. Author: Miller, Frederic P./ Vandome, Agnes F./ McBrewster, John Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 104 Publication Date: 2010/12/29 Language: English Dimensions: 6.00 x 9.02 x 0.25 inches |
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World History of Photography (Paperback) $88.69 Traces photographic history both topically and chronologically, profiles key masters, explains terms and processes, and features the landmarks in the development of photography. |
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A World History of Photography (Hardcover) $81.33 Traces photographic history both topically and chronologically, profiles key masters, explains terms and processes, and features the landmarks in the development of photography. |
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Social Documentary Photography $66.91 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles The social documentary photography entered into the awareness of photography and art history through the photographic practice of the Farm Security Administration (FSA). The FSA hired photographers and writers to report and document the plight of the poor farmer. The Information Division of the FSA was responsible for providing educational materials and press information to the public. Under Roy Stryker, the Information Division of the FSA adopted a goal of introducing America to Americans. Many of the most famous Depressionera photographers were fostered by the FSA project, such as Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, and Gordon Parks. FSA made 250,000 images of rural poverty. Fewer than half of those images survive and are housed in the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress. Author: Surhone, Lambert M./ Timpledon, Miriam T./ Marseken, Susan F. Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 84 Publication Date: 2010/06/25 Language: English Dimensions: 5.98 x 9.01 x 0.20 inches |
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1607: A New Look at Jamestown $26.78 “1607: A New Look at Jamestown” is the last word on America’s first colony. With expert appraisal of new archaeological evidence, this National Geographic title stands alone for timely authority and visual appeal. Karen Lange’s gripping narrative incorporates analysis of the latest discoveries from the Jamestown site. The text has been researched with the help of National Geographic grantee Dr. William Kelso. The pages come alive with Ira Block’s stunning photography, detailing newly discovered artifacts, and highlighting authentic Jamestown reenactments. Compelling new theories, a National Geographic period map, and stunning reenactment photography take us back to Jamestown in 1607, where the course of our country’s history changed forever. |
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1607: A New Look at Jamestown $11.72 “1607: A New Look at Jamestown” is the last word on America’s first colony. With expert appraisal of new archaeological evidence, this National Geographic title stands alone for timely authority and visual appeal. Karen Lange’s gripping narrative incorporates analysis of the latest discoveries from the Jamestown site. The text has been researched with the help of National Geographic grantee Dr. William Kelso. The pages come alive with Ira Block’s stunning photography, detailing newly discovered artifacts, and highlighting authentic Jamestown reenactments. Compelling new theories, a National Geographic period map, and stunning reenactment photography take us back to Jamestown in 1607, where the course of our country’s history changed forever. |
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50 American Artists You Should Know $12.31 DEBRA N. MANCOFF While the history of American art is as varied as the fifty states the country is comprised of, it tells a story of a uniquely American aesthetic: bold, innovative, and uncompromising. Starting with the portraits of John Singleton Copley and the landscape masterpieces of Frederic Church, this exciting look at the most important American artists moves through the era of Cassatt, Whistler, and Sargent to the groundbreaking works of O’Keeffe, Cornell, and Calder. This book also celebrates the artists who placed America at the forefront of modern art: Pollock, de Kooning, Rauschenberg, Warhol, Oldenburg, and Johns. The works of Sherman, Serra, and Close prove that America continues to produce challenging and influential artists. With its colorfully illustrated spreads and contextual approach, this is a superb guide for anyone interested in learning about American art. |
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A Boatload of Madmen: Surrealism and the American Avant-Garde 1920-1950 $17.72 In 1932, against the troubled background of the Depression, the American art community had its first glimpse of the revolutionary art of the Surrealists. Combining a fascination for Freud’s new symbolic language of dreams with a radical utopianism, the Parisian movement galvanized an emerging American avant-garde. New galleries opened to exhibit the “terrifying”, “insane” works of Surrealist artists, and new magazines sprang up to publish a startling crop of Surrealist poetry, criticism, and vociferous attacks on mainstream culture and politics. Four years later, a major Surrealist exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York catapulted Surrealism into the cultural limelight. Soon the art of Man Ray was selling cologne and swimwear and Salvador Dali was designing shop windows and a pavilion at the 1939 New York World’s Fair. Andre Breton and his circle, exiled in Manhattan during World War II, were unable to assert control over this new kind of Surrealism. If anything, their cultural dislocation in these years gave Americans the edge in developing new Surrealist concepts and movements such as Abstract Expressionism. This innovative and vividly written cultural history tells the story of Surrealism’s remarkable sea change during its years in America, from a fiercely leftist, strongly literary avant-garde movement into an apolitical, almost exclusively visual style. Exploring both “high” and “low” cultural perspectives, Dickran Tashjian shows how the American avant-garde selectively filtered and reshaped European Surrealism to meet its own agendas, and how it in turn was reinterpreted, depoliticized, and commercially exploited by mainstream American culture and thefashion/advertising industry. |
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A Day in the Life of the United States Armed Forces $25 This extraordinary book of photography chronicles one day in the life of America’s armed forces at 125 locations throughout the world, producing a portrait in indelible images and eloquent words of the men and women who wear the military uniforms of this country. 250+ full color & b&w photos. |
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A Guide to Smithsonian Architecture $9.22 The buildings of the Smithsonian Institution not only contain impressive collections; they are themselves icons of great cultural significance, many of them part of the historic National Mall. The Smithsonian’s unique buildings illustrate the changing styles and sensibilities of America as an evolving nation. Representing the work of major architects, each building evokes a specific time in history: the mid-19th-century turreted Castle, the sky-reflecting mid-century modern Air and Space Museum, and the golden, undulating, 21st-century American Indian Museum. |
