Photographic Memory: The Album in the Age of Photography
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
Photographic Memory: The Album in the Age of Photography
By (Author) Verna Posever Curtis
Aperture
Aperture
6th September 2011
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
771.4609
Physical Properties
Hardback
288
Width 241mm, Height 292mm
2120g
Description
Copublished by Aperture and the Library of Congress
Reviews
The photo albums featured in Curtis's book are from the Library of Congress's holdings, including, ... [photos] by Jack Delano, which document the lives of coal miners in the towns of Schuykill County in eastern Pennsylvania.--Editor "The New York Times Book Review "
Author Bio
Verna Posever Curtis is a curator of photography in the Prints & Photographs Division of the Library of Congress. She has written and lectured extensively on 19th and 20th century photography, and penned the volumes Ambassadors of Progress: American Women Photographers in Paris, 19001901 and F. Holland Day: Selected Texts and Bibliography, among others.
