Author: Erin Pauwels
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271096446
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
Napoleon Sarony was once one of the most famous names in American photography. During the Gilded Age, his grand portrait studio with its one-story-high marquee reproducing the photographer’s signature in golden letters was a New York City landmark visited by celebrities such as Oscar Wilde, Sarah Bernhardt, and Mark Twain. Sarony’s story represents a central chapter in the history of photography. Napoleon Sarony’s Living Pictures documents Sarony’s career as New York City’s premier portrait photographer and details a moment when the birth of celebrity culture and growth of mass media helped promote popular acceptance of photography as fine art. Sarony’s larger-than-life public image was crucial to demonstrating photography’s creative potential. At a time when photographers were commonly regarded as straitlaced entrepreneurs or technicians, Sarony circulated self-portraits in outlandish costumes to assert himself as a flamboyantly eccentric artist. These photographic performances forged an authoritative link between the so-called father of artistic photography in America and the stylish celebrity portraits that emerged from his studio by the tens of thousands. Reconstructing Sarony’s biography and bringing to light never-before-published portraits, Erin Pauwels provides an illuminating view of how one artist’s quest for creative recognition fueled the rise of celebrity culture and artistic photography in the United States. This book will appeal to historians of photography and nineteenth-century American visual culture, as well as anyone interested in this master of the medium of photography and his celebrity subjects.
Napoleon Sarony’s Living Pictures
Author: Erin Pauwels
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271096446
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
Napoleon Sarony was once one of the most famous names in American photography. During the Gilded Age, his grand portrait studio with its one-story-high marquee reproducing the photographer’s signature in golden letters was a New York City landmark visited by celebrities such as Oscar Wilde, Sarah Bernhardt, and Mark Twain. Sarony’s story represents a central chapter in the history of photography. Napoleon Sarony’s Living Pictures documents Sarony’s career as New York City’s premier portrait photographer and details a moment when the birth of celebrity culture and growth of mass media helped promote popular acceptance of photography as fine art. Sarony’s larger-than-life public image was crucial to demonstrating photography’s creative potential. At a time when photographers were commonly regarded as straitlaced entrepreneurs or technicians, Sarony circulated self-portraits in outlandish costumes to assert himself as a flamboyantly eccentric artist. These photographic performances forged an authoritative link between the so-called father of artistic photography in America and the stylish celebrity portraits that emerged from his studio by the tens of thousands. Reconstructing Sarony’s biography and bringing to light never-before-published portraits, Erin Pauwels provides an illuminating view of how one artist’s quest for creative recognition fueled the rise of celebrity culture and artistic photography in the United States. This book will appeal to historians of photography and nineteenth-century American visual culture, as well as anyone interested in this master of the medium of photography and his celebrity subjects.
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271096446
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
Napoleon Sarony was once one of the most famous names in American photography. During the Gilded Age, his grand portrait studio with its one-story-high marquee reproducing the photographer’s signature in golden letters was a New York City landmark visited by celebrities such as Oscar Wilde, Sarah Bernhardt, and Mark Twain. Sarony’s story represents a central chapter in the history of photography. Napoleon Sarony’s Living Pictures documents Sarony’s career as New York City’s premier portrait photographer and details a moment when the birth of celebrity culture and growth of mass media helped promote popular acceptance of photography as fine art. Sarony’s larger-than-life public image was crucial to demonstrating photography’s creative potential. At a time when photographers were commonly regarded as straitlaced entrepreneurs or technicians, Sarony circulated self-portraits in outlandish costumes to assert himself as a flamboyantly eccentric artist. These photographic performances forged an authoritative link between the so-called father of artistic photography in America and the stylish celebrity portraits that emerged from his studio by the tens of thousands. Reconstructing Sarony’s biography and bringing to light never-before-published portraits, Erin Pauwels provides an illuminating view of how one artist’s quest for creative recognition fueled the rise of celebrity culture and artistic photography in the United States. This book will appeal to historians of photography and nineteenth-century American visual culture, as well as anyone interested in this master of the medium of photography and his celebrity subjects.
Napoleon Sarony’s Living Pictures
Author: Erin Pauwels
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271096438
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 533
Book Description
Napoleon Sarony was once one of the most famous names in American photography. During the Gilded Age, his grand portrait studio with its one-story-high marquee reproducing the photographer’s signature in golden letters was a New York City landmark visited by celebrities such as Oscar Wilde, Sarah Bernhardt, and Mark Twain. Sarony’s story represents a central chapter in the history of photography. Napoleon Sarony’s Living Pictures documents Sarony’s career as New York City’s premier portrait photographer and details a moment when the birth of celebrity culture and growth of mass media helped promote popular acceptance of photography as fine art. Sarony’s larger-than-life public image was crucial to demonstrating photography’s creative potential. At a time when photographers were commonly regarded as straitlaced entrepreneurs or technicians, Sarony circulated self-portraits in outlandish costumes to assert himself as a flamboyantly eccentric artist. These photographic performances forged an authoritative link between the so-called father of artistic photography in America and the stylish celebrity portraits that emerged from his studio by the tens of thousands. Reconstructing Sarony’s biography and bringing to light never-before-published portraits, Erin Pauwels provides an illuminating view of how one artist’s quest for creative recognition fueled the rise of celebrity culture and artistic photography in the United States. This book will appeal to historians of photography and nineteenth-century American visual culture, as well as anyone interested in this master of the medium of photography and his celebrity subjects.
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271096438
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 533
Book Description
Napoleon Sarony was once one of the most famous names in American photography. During the Gilded Age, his grand portrait studio with its one-story-high marquee reproducing the photographer’s signature in golden letters was a New York City landmark visited by celebrities such as Oscar Wilde, Sarah Bernhardt, and Mark Twain. Sarony’s story represents a central chapter in the history of photography. Napoleon Sarony’s Living Pictures documents Sarony’s career as New York City’s premier portrait photographer and details a moment when the birth of celebrity culture and growth of mass media helped promote popular acceptance of photography as fine art. Sarony’s larger-than-life public image was crucial to demonstrating photography’s creative potential. At a time when photographers were commonly regarded as straitlaced entrepreneurs or technicians, Sarony circulated self-portraits in outlandish costumes to assert himself as a flamboyantly eccentric artist. These photographic performances forged an authoritative link between the so-called father of artistic photography in America and the stylish celebrity portraits that emerged from his studio by the tens of thousands. Reconstructing Sarony’s biography and bringing to light never-before-published portraits, Erin Pauwels provides an illuminating view of how one artist’s quest for creative recognition fueled the rise of celebrity culture and artistic photography in the United States. This book will appeal to historians of photography and nineteenth-century American visual culture, as well as anyone interested in this master of the medium of photography and his celebrity subjects.
The Theatrical Photographs of Napoleon Sarony
Author: Ben L. Bassham
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Napoleon Sarony's Living Pictures
Author: Erin Pauwels
Publisher: Penn State University Press
ISBN: 9780271095066
Category : Celebrities
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Examines the career of the Gilded Age photographer Napoleon Sarony and his role in the rise of celebrity culture in the United States.
Publisher: Penn State University Press
ISBN: 9780271095066
Category : Celebrities
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Examines the career of the Gilded Age photographer Napoleon Sarony and his role in the rise of celebrity culture in the United States.
Abel's Photographic Weekly
Author:
Publisher:
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Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
Catalogue of Illustrated Works and First Editions in the Library of Charles A. Morrogh
Author: Charles A. Morrogh
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : First editions
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : First editions
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Moving Pictures
Author: Nancy Mowll Mathews
Publisher: Hudson Hills
ISBN: 9781555952280
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Explores the complex relationship between American art and the new medium of film.
Publisher: Hudson Hills
ISBN: 9781555952280
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Explores the complex relationship between American art and the new medium of film.
Opera Glass
Author:
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The Opera Glass
Author:
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Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 794
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 794
Book Description
The Photograph and the Book
Author: Charles B. Wood III, Inc
Publisher:
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Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description