The Photographic Legacy Of Frances Benjamin Johnston
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The Photographic Legacy Of Frances Benjamin Johnston
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Author : Maria Elizabeth Ausherman
language : en
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Release Date : 2022-08-15
The Photographic Legacy Of Frances Benjamin Johnston written by Maria Elizabeth Ausherman and has been published by University of Alabama Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-15 with Architecture categories.
"One of the first women to work in an emerging field dominated by men, Frances Benjamin Johnston (1864-1952) achieved acclaim in the late nineteenth century as an accomplished photographer. Her career spanned nearly seventy years, during which she became respected for her portraiture, artistic studies, photojournalism, and garden and architectural photography. She was instrumental in defining the medium and inspiring women to train in and appreciate photography. Though the socially well-connected Johnston was popular among prestigious celebrities of the day - she worked as the official White House photographer for five administrations - it is her monumental, nine-state survey of southern American architecture that stands as her most significant contribution to the history and development of photography both as art and as documentary. Drawing upon Johnston's original papers and photographs from the Library of Congress, Maria Ausherman's examination of this extraordinary photographer's career shows both the early origins of her style and vision and her attempts to change society through her art"--
A Talent For Detail
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Author : Frances Benjamin Johnston
language : en
Publisher: Crown
Release Date : 1974
A Talent For Detail written by Frances Benjamin Johnston and has been published by Crown this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974 with Documentary photography categories.
The Woman Behind The Lens
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Author : Bettina Berch
language : en
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Release Date : 2000
The Woman Behind The Lens written by Bettina Berch and has been published by University of Virginia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Try to picture Mark Twain, or Uncle Remus, or even Theodore Roosevelt. More than likely, you have a Frances Benjamin Johnston image in your mind. Johnston was a significant—and arresting—figure in early twentieth-century photography. Beautifully illustrated with forty examples of her work, this first full-length biography explores the surprising range of Johnston's talent, as well as her high-stepping, controversial character. Johnston produced a good deal of the usual society portraiture of the time—including a nude photograph of a debutante that prompted the girl's outraged father to file a lawsuit—but she was also an important photodocumentarian. Students of African American history can reexamine life at Hampton Institute (now Hampton University) or Tuskegee using hundreds of photographs made by Johnston at the turn of the last century. Through Johnston's work we can see Admiral Dewey on the deck of the USS Olympia, the Roosevelt children playing with their pet pony at the White House, and the gardens of Edith Wharton's famous villa near Paris. Johnston's major project on early vernacular architecture of the American South preserves scores of buildings that no longer exist except on her film. However, while many are familiar with Johnston's photographs, most know little about the woman who made them. And without the context of her life, which Bettina Berch gives us in all its contradiction and color, Johnston's subjects may seem inchoate, her choices part feminist and part reactionary, part radical and part retrograde. Johnston entered photography when the field was relatively new, and professional gender boundaries were still being defined. The invention of lighter equipment and changing technologies in developing meant that photography could be moved from the studio and darkroom—male provinces—out into the street or the home. But the repressiveness of late nineteenth-century society sometimes cast a shadow: there were a host of prescriptions governing proper female behavior, and certainly the sensuality of the human body as a subject caused many to argue that this new art form should remain a male preserve. Within these boundaries, Johnston defined herself as an artist. Raised in an upper-middle-class household in Washington, D.C., she declined to "marry money" and instead made her living as an artist, although she enjoyed the cushion of her family's wealth and connections. In the course of her career, she moved through a series of interests, from portraiture to historic preservation. It is her restlessness, her resistance to easy categorizing, that makes this upper-class bohemian photographer such a fascinating subject herself.
Frances Benjamin Johnston
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Author : Frances Benjamin Johnston
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1984
Frances Benjamin Johnston written by Frances Benjamin Johnston and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Documentary photography categories.
Frances Benjamin Johnston
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Author : Constance W. Glenn
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1979-01-01
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Ambassadors Of Progress
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Author : Verna Posever Curtis
language : en
Publisher: Library of Congress/Musie Dart Giverny Distributed by Univer
Release Date : 2001
Ambassadors Of Progress written by Verna Posever Curtis and has been published by Library of Congress/Musie Dart Giverny Distributed by Univer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Photography categories.
Highlights the contributions of women to photographic history.
A Talent For Detail
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Author : Pete Daniel
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1974
A Talent For Detail written by Pete Daniel and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974 with Documentary photography categories.
"Her portrait work immortalized Susan B. Anthony, Joel Chandler Harris, Mark Twain, the Roosevelts, George Washington Carver, Alexander Graham Bell, Booker T. Washington, Admiral Dewey, President McKinley and many others. Women workers, coal miners, iron men, blacks, Indians, students and world expositions are the subjects of her photo-essays. Independent and successful, Frances Benjamin Johnston produced numerous self-portraits, documenting her unconventional life during the gilded age of post-Victorian America. A Talent for Detail is an historical record of America from 1889-1910; a gallery of the famous and the common people of that time, and a photobiography of an extraordinarily gifted woman."--Provided by publisher.
Frances Benjamin Johnston Women Of Class And Station
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Author : Frances Benjamin Johnston
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1979
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Frances Benjamin Johnston
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Author : Sarah Meister
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-05-21
Frances Benjamin Johnston written by Sarah Meister and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-21 with Freedmen categories.
Comprised of 159 extraordinary platinum plates, Frances Benjamin Johnston's Hampton Album documents life at the Hampton Institute marking a pivotal moment in this historically black university's history . Frances Benjamin Johnston (American, 1864-1952), one of the first women in America to work as a professional photographer, was commissioned in 1899 to photograph the Hampton Institute, then a thirty year old institution dedicated to the practical and academic education of freed slaves and Native Americans. What became known as the Hampton Album - comprised of 159 platinum plates exhibited in 1900 at the Exposition Universelle in Paris - is Johnston's signature work, and has become a touchstone for contemporary historians and artists. The leather-bound album was discovered serendipitously by Lincoln Kirstein in a Washington, D.C. bookstore during World War II and donated to MoMA in 1965.
Frances Benjamin Johnston
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1979
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