Winslow Homer and the camera : photography and the art of painting by Byrd, Dana E

Winslow Homer and the camera : photography and the art of painting
by Byrd, Dana E

(#1040MVX)

Hardcover Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 2018
Description: xi, 196 pages : illustrations (some color); 29 cm
Dewey: 759.13; Audience: Adult

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"Published on the occasion of the exhibition Winslow Homer and the Camera: Photography and the Art of Painting, organized by Bowdoin College Museum of Art. Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine, June 22 to October 28, 2018, Brandywine River Museum of Art, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, November 17, 2018, to February 17, 2019"--Title page verso.;Includes bibliographical references and index.;A good thing when he sees it: Winslow Homer, photography, and the art of painting / Frank H. Goodyear III -- Plates -- Trouble in paradise?: Winslow Homer in the Bahamas, Cuba, and Florida, 1884-1886 / Dana E. Byrd -- Plates. Explores the role that photography played in the artwork of American landscape painter and printmaker Winslow Homer.

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A revelatory exploration of Winslow Homer's engagement with photography, shedding new light on his celebrated paintings and works on paper

One of the greatest American painters of the 19th century, Winslow Homer (1836-1910) also maintained a deep engagement with photography throughout his career. Focusing on the important, yet often-overlooked, role that photography played in Homer's art, this volume exposes Homer's own experiments with the camera (he first bought one in 1882). It also explores how the medium of photography and the larger visual economy influenced his work as a painter, watercolorist, and printmaker at a moment when new print technologies inundated the public with images. Frank Goodyear and Dana Byrd demonstrate that photography offered Homer new ways of seeing and representing the world, from his early commercial engravings sourced from contemporary photographs to the complex relationship between his late-career paintings of life in the Bahamas, Florida, and Cuba and the emergent trend of tourist photography. The authors argue that Homer's understanding of the camera's ability to create an image that is simultaneously accurate and capable of deception was vitally important to his artistic practice in all media. Richly illustrated and full of exciting new discoveries, Winslow Homer and the Camera is a long-overdue examination of the ways in which photography shaped the vision of one of America's most original painters.
Product Details
  • Publisher: Bowdoin College Museum of Art
  • Publication Date: July 10, 2018
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Dewey: 759.13
  • Classifications: Nonfiction
  • Description: xi, 196 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
  • Tracings: Goodyear, Frank H., III, 1967- author. ; Homer, Winslow, 1836-1910, artist. ; Bowdoin College. Museum of Art, sponsoring body. ; Brandywine River Museum of Art, sponsoring body.
  • ISBN-10: 0-300-21455-3
  • ISBN-13: 978-0-300-21455-0
  • LCCN: 2017-948833
  • Follett Number: 1040MVX
  • Audience: Adult