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Author Maddow, Ben, 1909-1992.

Title Faces : a narrative history of the portrait in photography / by Ben Maddow ; photos. compiled and edited by Constance Sullivan ; designed and coordinated by Massimo Vignelli and Gudrun Buettner
Edition First edition
Published Boston : Little, Brown & Co. for New York Graphic Society, 1977

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Description 540 pages : illustrations ; 32 cm
Contents A defiance of time: the tradition of portraiture -- The third eye: the beginnings of photography -- The sun as artist: calotype and daguerreotype -- A democracy of portraits: America in the nineteenth century -- Trailing clouds of glory: Victorian England -- Intellectual barricades: the nineteenth century in France -- Nature improved I: pictorialism in Europe -- Nature improved II: pictorialism in America -- Class and conscience I: Europe -- Class and conscience II: America -- Class and conscience III: America into the thirties and beyond -- Class and conscience IV: America now -- Inside or outside I: the studio portrait in the twentieth century -- Inside or outside II: circle of the famous -- Inside or outside III: intimate visions -- Stills from an infinite movie: street portraits
Analysis Photography
Notes "A Chanticleer Press edition."
Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 532-535
Subject Portrait photography -- History.
Portrait photography.
Author Sullivan, Constance.
LC no. 76041139
ISBN 0821207032