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Shot in Alabama
Frances Osborn Robb
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Description for Shot in Alabama
Hardback. Offers a visual and textual narrative of Alabama's photographic history from 1839 to 1941. It describes the phenomenon of photography as practiced in Alabama as a major cultural force, paying close attention to the particular contexts from which each image emerges and the fragments of microhistory that each image documents. Num Pages: 592 pages, 1 color figure / 156 duotone figures / 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBSB; 3JH; 3JJ; AJB; AJCP; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 46. Weight in Grams: 1588.
Shot in Alabama by Frances Osborn Robb is a visual and textual narrative of Alabama’s photographic history from 1839 to 1941. It describes the phenomenon of photography as practiced in Alabama as a major cultural force, paying close attention to the particular contexts from which each image emerges and the fragments of microhistory that each image documents.
Presented chronologically—from the very first photograph ever taken in the state to the appearance of cameras as commonplace possessions in mid-twentieth-century households—Robb draws into sharp relief the eras of daguerreotypes, Civil War photography, photographic portraiture at the end of the ... Read more
Shot in Alabama by Frances Osborn Robb is a visual and textual narrative of Alabama’s photographic history from 1839 to 1941. It describes the phenomenon of photography as practiced in Alabama as a major cultural force, paying close attention to the particular contexts from which each image emerges and the fragments of microhistory that each image documents.
Presented chronologically—from the very first photograph ever taken in the state to the appearance of cameras as commonplace possessions in mid-twentieth-century households—Robb draws into sharp relief the eras of daguerreotypes, Civil War photography, photographic portraiture at the end of the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
The University of Alabama Press United States
Number of pages
592
Condition
New
Number of Pages
592
Place of Publication
Alabama, United States
ISBN
9780817318789
SKU
V9780817318789
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About Frances Osborn Robb
Huntsville resident Frances Osborn Robb has spent twenty-five years researching Alabama photographers and photographs while serving as a consultant on the state’s cultural history and historic photography for museums, archives, and libraries. She has curated or advised on many exhibitions, including Made in Alabama: A State Legacy and the award-winning exhibition In View of Home: Alabama Landscape Photographs. In her ... Read more
Reviews for Shot in Alabama
“Shot in Alabama is an extraordinary, first-rate overview of photography in this state, from the introduction of daguerreotypes in 1839 to the beginning of US involvement in World War II, which Robb explains was itself a watershed in Alabama photography.” —Martin T. Olliff, editor of The Great War in the Heart of Dixie: Alabama during World War I|“Frances Robb ... Read more