Photography's Multiple Roles: Art, Document, Market, Science

by Denise Miller

This book explores the multiple roles of photography as viewed through perhaps the single most important collection of American photography of the 1960s, 70s, 80s and 90s -- the permanent collection of The Museum of Contemporary Photography. Isolating the development of postwar photography into four major roles -- artistic expression, documentation, commercial industry, and scientific tool -- this book includes essays by renowned scholars, and features...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0965888711
• ISBN13: 9780965888714
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Museum of Contemporary Photography Columbia C
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 3.70 lbs.