books by Miles Orvell (authenticity photographs documenting)

books by Miles Orvell

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American Photography (Oxford History of Art)
Miles Orvell

Oxford University Press, USA, 2003

150 years of American photography come alive in this exciting new book, placing it in its cultural context for the first time. Orvell examines this fascinating subject through a wide range of well known and less-well known images. He ranges from portraiture and landscape photography, family albums and memory, and analyses the particularly 'American' way in which American photographers have viewed the world around them. Orvell combines a clear ...

The Real Thing: Imitation and Authenticity in American Culture, 1880-1940 (Cultural Studies of the United ...

2 reviews
Miles Orvell

The University of North Carolina Press, 1989

Superb study of American culture emerging into modernity
Orvell's THE REAL THING is the sort of book I wish I'd written. It is entertaining, wide-ranging across many cultural genres, and offers a coherent and stimulating account of American culture in the late 29th and early 20th centuries. It is especially acute on such complex and difficult-to-classify cultural phenomena as the rise of department stores and mass-produced consumer goods, the ...

John Vachon's America: Photographs and Letters from the Depression to World War II (Ahmanson-Murphy Fine Arts ...

3 reviews
John Vachon

University of California Press, 2003

Great photos, fascinating commentary
This is a terrific book. It is beautifully designed and a pleasure to look at and look through. But in addition, the editor's comments are very illuminating. They bring both Vachon the man and his photographs to life. I picked this book up in the bookstore partly because I was struck by the cover photograph and then the ones inside, and partly because I had earlier read Orvell's wonderful ...

American Photography
Miles Orvell

Oxford Univ Pr, 2003

Times of Sorrow & Hope Cmbk: Documenting Everyday Life in ...

1 review
Allen Cohen, Farm Security Administration

Pennsylvania State University Press, 2003

Keystone State photos.
This is the sixteenth book of FSA photos devoted to a State that I've bought and I must say it is probably the best one from any criteria, photo selection, editorial content, design and printing. Though it only has 150 photos, a close second to this title would be 'Picturing Texas' (ISBN 0876111401) which has more than 200, it makes up for less visually by having such a comprehensive editorial ...