Author: John BANVARDPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Description of Banvard's Panorama of the Mississippi, Missouri and Ohio Rivers, etc
Author: John BANVARDDescription of Banvard's Panorama of the Mississippi River and Missouri Rivers
Author: John BanvardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mississippi River
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Description of Banvard's Panorama of the Mississippi&Missouri Rivers, Extensively Known as the “Three-Mile Painting,” Exhibiting a View of Country Over 3000 Miles in Length, Etc. (Adventures of the Artist.).
Author: John BANVARDDescription of Banvard's Panorama of the Mississippi River
Author: John BanvardPublisher: Wyatt North Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 1647981972
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 57
Book Description
John Banvard (1815 - 1891) was a famous American painter. He is best known for his panoramic views of the Mississippi River Valley. The description of his panorama was first published in 1847.
The Mississippi River and Valley
Author: Engineer School Library (Fort Belvoir, Va.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mississippi River
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Illusions in Motion
Author: Erkki HuhtamoPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262547546
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 461
Book Description
Tracing the cultural, material, and discursive history of an early manifestation of media culture in the making. Beginning in the late eighteenth century, huge circular panoramas presented their audiences with resplendent representations that ranged from historic battles to exotic locations. Such panoramas were immersive but static. There were other panoramas that moved—hundreds, and probably thousands of them. Their history has been largely forgotten. In Illusions in Motion, Erkki Huhtamo excavates this neglected early manifestation of media culture in the making. The moving panorama was a long painting that unscrolled behind a “window” by means of a mechanical cranking system, accompanied by a lecture, music, and sometimes sound and light effects. Showmen exhibited such panoramas in venues that ranged from opera houses to church halls, creating a market for mediated realities in both city and country. In the first history of this phenomenon, Huhtamo analyzes the moving panorama in all its complexity, investigating its relationship to other media and its role in the culture of its time. In his telling, the panorama becomes a window for observing media in operation. Huhtamo explores such topics as cultural forms that anticipated the moving panorama; theatrical panoramas; the diorama; the "panoramania" of the 1850s and the career of Albert Smith, the most successful showman of that era; competition with magic lantern shows; the final flowering of the panorama in the late nineteenth century; and the panorama's afterlife as a topos, traced through its evocation in literature, journalism, science, philosophy, and propaganda.
Pioneer Photographers from the Mississippi to the Continental Divide
Author: Peter E. PalmquistPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804740579
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description
This biographical dictionary of some 3,000 photographers (and workers in related trades), active in a vast area of North America before 1866, is based on extensive research and enhanced by some 240 illustrations, most of which are published here for the first time. The territory covered extends from central Canada through Mexico and includes the United States from the Mississippi River west to, but not including, the Rocky Mountain states. Together, this volume and its predecessor, Pioneer Photographers of the Far West: A Biographical Dictionary, 1840-1865, comprise an exhaustive survey of early photographers in North America and Central America, excluding the eastern United States and eastern Canada. This work is distinguished by the large number of entries, by the appealing narratives that cover both professional and private lives of the subjects, and by the painstaking documentation. It will be an essential reference work for historians, libraries, and museums, as well as for collectors of and dealers in early American photography. In addition to photographers, the book includes photographic printers, retouchers, and colorists, and manufacturers and sellers of photographic apparatus and stock. Because creators of moving panoramas and optical amusements such as dioramas and magic lantern performances often fashioned their works after photographs, the people behind those exhibitions are also discussed.
Photography, Anthropology and History
Author: Elizabeth EdwardsPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317081099
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Photography, Anthropology and History examines the complex historical relationship between photography and anthropology, and in particular the strong emergence of the contemporary relevance of historical images. Thematically organized, and focusing on the visual practices developed within anthropology as a discipline, this book brings together a range of contemporary and methodologically innovative approaches to the historical image within anthropology. Importantly, it also demonstrates the ongoing relevance of both the historical image and the notion of the archive to recent anthropological thought. As current research rethinks the relationship between photography and anthropology, this volume will serve as a stimulus to this new phase of research as an essential text and methodological reference point in any course that addresses the relationship between anthropology and visuality.
Bibliotheca americana, 1878
Author: Robert Clarke & CoPublisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
North American Players of Shakespeare
Author: Michael W. ShurgotPublisher: University of Delaware Press
ISBN: 9780874139532
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 800
Book Description
This is a collection of interviews of twenty-one actors from Shakespeare theaters and festivals across North America, from the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland to the Chicago Shakespeare Theatre and the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Ontario. The interviews celebrate the variety in education, training, and approaches to acting conducted by recognized performance scholars. Thus, this book combines scholarly expertise with actors' insights to produce unique views on contemporary Shakespearean performances in the United States and Canada, and fills an important niche in performance criticism. Michael W. Shurgot is Professor of Humanities at South Puget Sound Community College.