Winslow Homer and the camera : photography and the art of painting /
"One of the greatest American painters of the 19th century, Winslow Homer (1836-1910) also maintained a deep engagement with photography throughout his career. Focusing on the important, yet often-overlooked, role that photography played in Homer's art, this volume exposes Homer's own...
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| Format: | Electronic |
| Language: | English |
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Brunswick, Maine : New Haven ; London :
Bowdoin College Museum of Art ; in association with Yale University Press,
[2018]
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| Summary: | "One of the greatest American painters of the 19th century, Winslow Homer (1836-1910) also maintained a deep engagement with photography throughout his career. Focusing on the important, yet often-overlooked, role that photography played in Homer's art, this volume exposes Homer's own experiments with the camera (he first bought one in 1882). It also explores how the medium of photography and the larger visual economy influenced his work as a painter, watercolorist, and printmaker at a moment when new print technologies inundated the public with images. Frank Goodyear and Dana Byrd demonstrate that photography offered Homer new ways of seeing and representing the world, from his early commercial engravings sourced from contemporary photographs to the complex relationship between his late-career paintings of life in the Bahamas, Florida, and Cuba and the emergent trend of tourist photography. The authors argue that Homer's understanding of the camera's ability to create an image that is simultaneously accurate and capable of deception was vitally important to his artistic practice in all media"--Publisher's description. |
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| Item Description: | Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine, June 22-October 28, 2018 and at the Brandywine River Museum of Art, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, November 17, 2018-February 17, 2019. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 196 pages) : 125 illustrations (some color), portraits |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 188-190) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780300259766 030025976X |