The valiant knights of Daguerre : selected critical essays on photography and profiles of photographic pioneers /
"From 1898 until shortly after World War I, Hartmann rampaged through the photographic world, first as Alfred Stieglitz's iconoclastic hatchetman of the Photo-Secession movement, later as an unruly rebel sniping away at his mentor under the pseudonym of Caliban. One of the most prolific ph...
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
[1978]
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Table of Contents:
- Selected critical essays on photography. Portrait painting and portrait photography
- A plea for the picturesqueness of New York
- On plagiarism and imitation
- Random thoughts on criticism
- On composition
- On genre
- A photographic enquête
- The influence of artistic photography on interior decoration
- Repetition with slight variation
- The Photo-Secession exhibition at the Carnegie Art Galleries, Pittsburgh, Pa.
- A plea for straight photography
- The broken plates (a short story)
- The Salon Club and the First American Photographic Salon at New York
- Recent conquests in night photography
- On the possibility of new laws of composition
- Unphotographic paint : the texture of impressionism
- The daguerreotype
- What remains
- The esthetic significance of the motion picture.
- Profiles of photographic pioneers. Alfred Stieglitz : an art critic's estimate
- Zaida Ben-Yúsuf : a purist
- Frank Eugene : painter-photographer
- Clarence H. White : a meteor through space
- F. Holland Day : a decorative photographer
- Rudolf Eickemeyer, Jr. : master of the foreground
- Gertrude Käsebier : a sense of the pictorial
- Edward Steichen : a visit to Steichen's studio
- H.H. Pierce : a traveling photographer
- Elias Goldensky : in the proletarian interest
- J.H. Garo : wanderer on new roads
- B.J. Falk : an exquisite temperament
- J.C. Strauss : the man behind the gun
- Joseph Byron : "the stage is my studio"
- Burr McIntosh : photographer of fads and fancies
- Guido Rey: a master of detail composition
- Alvin Langdon Coburn : Secession portraiture
- Rudolf Dührkoop : a German pictorialist
- E.S. Curtis : photo-historian
- Pirie MacDonald : psychology in portraiture
- Bessie Buehrmann : under the influence of the Secession
- Meredith Janvier : with a rush
- F. Benedict Herzog : a master of decorative composition
- Frederick I. Monsen : the stamp of reality
- Arnold Genthe : a photographer of Japan
- Maude Wilson : poet of sunshine and mist
- J.E. Mock : a study in backgrounds.