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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hartmann, Sadakichi, 1867-1944 (Author)
Corporate Author: Paul Avrich Collection (Library of Congress)
Other Authors: Lawton, Harry W., 1927-2005 (Editor), Knox, George A. (George Albert), 1918-1999 (Editor), Linton, Wistaria Hartmann
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: 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.