アメリカ研究基本文献シリーズ
アメリカ写真の発展
全4巻
ISBN 978-4-86340-250-8 ・ 菊判
定価 本体86,000円+税 ▶ 2017年
アメリカの写真について書かれた古典的な5冊。この新しいメディアの誕生からのおよそ100年を対象にした、社会的、文化的な歴史、技術、美学論の記録です。
アメリカの写真の歴史は今ではアメリカ研究の確かな一ジャンルとなり様々なテーマに沿った数多くの学術研究が出版されてきました。
アメリカでの初期の写真の歴史を振り返るならば、Samuel F. B. Morse、Edgar Allan Poeらによる銀板写真への強い関心、
相当な数の写真スタジオやビジネス機会の出現、人物写真の広まり、戦争報道やアメリカ西部の地質調査、民族学調査の記録、いわゆるコダック革命、
芸術写真の発生が想起され、文学、産業、社会、芸術のジャンルとの密接なかかわりが見えてきます。
Contents
Volume 75. M. A. Root The Camera and the Pencil; or, the Heliographic Art (1864)
ISBN 978-4-86340-251-5
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456 pp., 6 pl., ill.
19,000円+税
Includes chapters on: Heliography and the Fine Arts • Heliographers • The Sunbeam • Harmony of Colors •
The Heliographic Artist and His Sitters • The Sitting Room • Portraiture • Expression •
On Coloring Photographs • The Camera and the Microscope • History of the Heliographic Art in the United States •
The Heliographic Art: Its Present State and Appliances, and Its Future Possibilities • Index
Volume 76. Robert Taft Photography and the American Scene: A Social History, 1839–1889 (1938)
ISBN 978-4-86340-252-2 • 558 pp., ill.
23,000円+税
First Portraits and First Galleries • The Era of Daguerreotype • Daguerreotypes and the Public •
Daguerreotypy at Its Zenith • Photography • The Ambrotype • The Family Album • The Tintype •
The Stereoscope • “Boston as the Eagle and the Wild Goose See It” • Real Amateurs •
Civil War Photographers • Photographing the Frontier • The Cabinet Photograph • Kurtz, Sarony and Mora •
A New Age • The Flexible Film • Zoopraxiscopes and Less Wordy Innovations • Photography and the Pictorial Press •
Bibliography • Index
Volume 77. Edward L. Wilson Wilson’s Cyclopædic Photography: A Complete Hand-Book of the Terms, Processes, Formulæ and Appliances Available in Photography (1894)
ISBN 978-4-86340-253-9 • 514 pp., ill.
21,000円+税
Topics include: Albertype • Albumen • Ambrotype • Architectural Photography • Artificial Light •
Astronomical Photography • Portable Atelier • Autography • Background • Balloon Photography •
Panoramic Camera • Stereoscope Camera • Detective Camera • Collodion • Copying • Developing •
Dry Plates • Enlarging • Fixing • Freak Photography • Fuming • Heliochrome • Kaleidoscope Photography •
Landscape • Violent Perspective • Photo-Engraving • Photo-Mechanical Printing in Half-Tone •
Picture-Printing
Volume 78.
Charles H. Caffin Photography as a Fine Art: The Achievements and Possibilities of Photographic Art in America
(1901) &
Paul L. Anderson The Fine Art of Photography
(1919)
ISBN 978-4-86340-254-6
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524 pp., 25 pl., ill.
23,000円+税
[Caffin Photography as a Fine Art:] The Development and Present Status of the Photograph • Alfred Stieglitz and His Work • Gertrude Käsebier and the Artistic-Commercial Portrait • Methods of Individual Expression • The Landscape Subject • The Figure Subject in Pictorial Photography
[Anderson The Fine Art of Photography:] Composition • Values • Suggestion and Mystery • Landscape Work • Winter Work • Landscape with Figures • Architectural Work • Marine Work • Motion-Picture Work • Portraiture • The Philosophy of the Hand Camera • Index