An American century of photography : from dry-plate to digital / The Hallmark Photographic Collection ; Keith F. Davis ; foreword by Donald J. Hall. - 423 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 31 cm

"Exhibition accompanying this volume will be shown at a number of major museums in 1994-96, including the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri"--Pref.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- A Reluctant Modernism: 1885-1915 -- A New Age -- Art and Photography -- The Generation of 1902 -- Abstraction and Realism: 1915-1940 -- "A World Bursting with New Ideas" -- Purism and Pictorialism -- The New Vision -- American Documents -- The Triumph of Photography -- From Public to Private Concerns: 1940-1965 -- In the Shadow of War -- From Document to Metaphor -- Multitude, Solitude -- Art and Commerce -- New Perspectives: Into the '60s -- The Image Transformed 1965-Present -- The Photography Boom -- A New Pluralism -- Art and Photography -- Themes and Variations: Photography at the Century's End -- Coda: The Digital Revolution -- Endnotes -- Bibliography -- Index. I. II. III. IV.

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