Trace and Transformation: American Criticism of Photography in the Modernist Period

Trace and Transformation: American Criticism of Photography in the Modernist Period


Used – This historical survey of American theory and criticism of art photography covers the period from late-nineteenth-century Pictorialism through 1970s formalism. The author deals deftly with the difficulties faced by critics — from the essential question, how is photography an art at all? to the more modernist question of what constitutes the medium of photography at its pure core.With Pictorialism representing the first theory of photography as art, Eisinger begins his chronological overv

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