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Old Fields: Photography, Glamour, and Fantasy Landscape
John R. Stilgoe
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Description for Old Fields: Photography, Glamour, and Fantasy Landscape
Hardcover. Num Pages: 536 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AJ; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 34. Weight in Grams: 889.
Glamour subverts convention. As viewed through the lens of photography, models, images, and even landscapes can skew ordinary ways of seeing, suggesting new worlds imbued with fantasy, mystery, sexuality, and tension.
In Old Fields, John Stilgoe—one of the most original observers of his time—offers a poetic and controversial exploration of the generations-long effort to portray glamour. Fusing three forces in contemporary American culture—amateur photography after 1880; the rise of glamour and fantasy; and the often-mysterious quality of landscape photographs—Stilgoe provides a wide-ranging yet concentrated take on the cultural legacy of our photographic history.
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Glamour subverts convention. As viewed through the lens of photography, models, images, and even landscapes can skew ordinary ways of seeing, suggesting new worlds imbued with fantasy, mystery, sexuality, and tension.
In Old Fields, John Stilgoe—one of the most original observers of his time—offers a poetic and controversial exploration of the generations-long effort to portray glamour. Fusing three forces in contemporary American culture—amateur photography after 1880; the rise of glamour and fantasy; and the often-mysterious quality of landscape photographs—Stilgoe provides a wide-ranging yet concentrated take on the cultural legacy of our photographic history.
Through the medium ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
536
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813935157
SKU
V9780813935157
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About John R. Stilgoe
John R. Stilgoe is Orchard Professor in the History of Landscape at Harvard University, USA and the author of Lifeboat, Landscape and Images, Train Time (all Virginia), and Outside Lies Magic.
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