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The Illuminating Mind in American Photography: Stieglitz, Strand, Weston, Adams looks at the ideas, images and lives of four major twentieth century American photographers: Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand, Edward Weston, andAnsel Adams. It is a kind of comparative biography, showing the interrelationships of their lives as well as their shared themes and experiences.The Illuminating Mind looks at the ideas, images and lives of four major twentieth century American photographers: Alfred Stieglitz [1864-1946], Paul Strand [1890-1976], Edward Weston [1886-1958] and Ansel Adams [1902-1984]. Largely because of their efforts, Americans came to accept photography as a fine art. This book examines the lives of these four photographers within the context of their times, sketching not only their contributions to Americanmodernism, but also their struggles with epistemological and representational questions that echoed throughout American culture. They were all interested in the relationships between the artist and his subject, the knower and theknown, the mind and its objects. For them, photography was not passive transcription of the outer world; instead, it is an exploratory process in which

Author

David P. Peeler

Publisher

Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9781580460590

Subjects

Memoir, Photography, Technology