Mary Panzer
Biographic Data
| ID | 1466678 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mary Panzer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mary |
| FAMILY NAME | Panzer |
| SIGNATURE | PANZER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yale University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Berenice Abbott
Reviewed by: Berenice Abbott: A Life in Photography by Julia Van Haaften Mary Panzer (bio) Berenice Abbott: A Life in Photography. By Julia Van Haaften. New York: W. W. Norton, 2018. Pp. 634. Hardcover $28.46. Berenice Abbott (1898–1982) is well known to the photography world for her breathtaking shot of New York at Night (1932); her architectural views, Changing New York, made in the 1930s; her sparkling portraits of the cultural avant-garde mad…
At the Edge of Sight
Reviewed by: At the Edge of Sight: Photography and the Unseen by Shawn Michelle Smith Mary Panzer (bio) At the Edge of Sight: Photography and the Unseen. By Shawn Michelle Smith. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2013. Pp. xvii+293. $99.95/$28.95. This book comprises a collection of essays on the work of photographers of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—F. Holland Day, Eadweard Muybridge, A. J. Russell, Chansonetta Stanley Emmons, as…
Picturing Poverty
Reviewed by: Picturing Poverty: Print Culture and FSA Photographs Mary Panzer (bio) Picturing Poverty: Print Culture and FSA Photographs. By Cara A. Finnegan. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2003. Pp. xxviii+260. $36.95. In this significant book, Cara Finnegan approaches an old question from a new point of view. Where other scholars of the Farm Security Administration (FSA) identify their disciplines as art history, agricultural …
Invention of Hysteria
Reviewed by: Invention of Hysteria: Charcot and the Photographic Iconography of the Salpêtrière Mary Panzer (bio) Invention of Hysteria: Charcot and the Photographic Iconography of the Salpêtrière. By Georges Didi-Huberman, trans. Alisa Hartz. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2003. Pp. xii+336. $34.95. Jean-Martin Charcot is familiar to historians of medicine as clinical chair of diseases of the nervous system at the Salpêtrière (a French asylum for …
Tender Violence
Laura Wexler takes her title from Samuel Chapman Armstrong, founder of Hampton Institute, whose phrase described how to educate ex-slaves and Native Americans. This historic institution (now Hampton University) is still known through photographs made by Frances Benjamin Johnston and exhibited in 1900 at the Paris Exposition, part of the display on American Negro life. In her clear, complex, insightful book, Wexler explores the ideology that linke…
Frances Benjamin Johnston
On 6 January 1898, the US National Museum acquired ‘pictorial studies’ by Frederick Hollyer, W. A. Martin, Henry Peach Robinson, Oscar Rejlander, and Julia Margaret Cameron, in a group of sixty-nine photographs that included many illustrations of new and old technical processes such as paper prints, paper negatives, a Talbotype, carbon prints, glass transparencies, ‘color specimens’, and Woodburytypes. The group also included portraits of noted p…
The George Kendall Warren photography collection
A collection of letters, journals, scrapbooks, daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, cartes-de-visites, and cabinet cards made by George Kendall Warren (1832–84) documents both an important career and the evolution of celebrity photography during the years following the Civil War (figure 1). Warren began his career in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1851 as a maker of daguerreotypes; by 1858, he had begun to produce photographs on salted paper. That year, Warren…
Portraits of Conflict
Mathew Brady and the Image of History
Journal Article Mathew Brady and the Image of History. By Mary Panzer. (Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1997. xxiv, 232 pp. $39.95, ISBN 1-56098-793-6.) Heavily illustrated Get access Debby Applegate Debby Applegate Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 3, December 1998, Pages 1078–1079, https://doi.org/10.2307/25672…
Mathew Brady's Portraits
“Mathew Brady's Portraits: Images as History, Photography as Art.” National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, F St. at 8th N.W., Washington, DC 20560 Get access David P. Peeler David P. Peeler United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 1, June 1998, Pages 170–173, https://doi.org/10.2307/2568438 Published: 01 June …
Contesting Images
Contesting Images
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 1045 swayed by the assertion that “small ‘branded’ dealers and indepen dents alike have existed in every period but hardly flourish. . . . Such ‘mom and pop’ arrangements subsist but in decided disadvantage to the bigger entrepreneur” (p. 198). Although the major oil companies (and the publications they supported) apparently did not wish to draw attention to them, during the 1920s and 1930s the landscape was s…
Panning 'The West as America
How The West Was Won
Review| March 01 1989 How The West Was Won: Reinventing the Myth of William Henry Jackson William Henry Jackson and the Transformation of the American Landscape by Peter B. Hales, Temple University Press/355 pp./$39.95 Mary Panzer Mary Panzer Mary Panzer is a Fanny Knapp Allen Fellow in the department of art and art history at the University of Rochester. She is working on a book about the relationship between art and photography in midnineteenth…
William H. Rau and the archives of photographic history
Other| April 01 1988 William H. Rau and the archives of photographic history Mary Panzer Mary Panzer Mary Panzer is a photographic historian and a Fellow at the National Museum of American Art in Washington, DC. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (1988) 15 (9): 9–11. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.1988.15.9.9 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Revie…
Manifest Destiny
Other| April 01 1986 Manifest Destiny Landscape as Photograph by Estelle Jussim and Elizabeth Lindquist-Cock Yale University Press/168 pp./$35.00 (hb) Mary Panzer Mary Panzer Mary Panzer writes frequently for Views: The Journal of Photography in New England and is the author of Philadelphia Naturalistic Photography (1982). Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (1986) 13 (9): 10–12. https://doi.org/10…
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Manifest Destiny
Other| April 01 1986 Manifest Destiny Landscape as Photograph by Estelle Jussim and Elizabeth Lindquist-Cock Yale University Press/168 pp./$35.00 (hb) Mary Panzer Mary Panzer Mary Panzer writes frequently for Views: The Journal of Photography in New England and is the author of Philadelphia Naturalistic Photography (1982). Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (1986) 13 (9): 10–12. https://doi.org/10…
William H. Rau and the archives of photographic history
Other| April 01 1988 William H. Rau and the archives of photographic history Mary Panzer Mary Panzer Mary Panzer is a photographic historian and a Fellow at the National Museum of American Art in Washington, DC. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (1988) 15 (9): 9–11. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.1988.15.9.9 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Revie…
How The West Was Won
Review| March 01 1989 How The West Was Won: Reinventing the Myth of William Henry Jackson William Henry Jackson and the Transformation of the American Landscape by Peter B. Hales, Temple University Press/355 pp./$39.95 Mary Panzer Mary Panzer Mary Panzer is a Fanny Knapp Allen Fellow in the department of art and art history at the University of Rochester. She is working on a book about the relationship between art and photography in midnineteenth…
Panning 'The West as America
Contesting Images
Contesting Images
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 1045 swayed by the assertion that “small ‘branded’ dealers and indepen dents alike have existed in every period but hardly flourish. . . . Such ‘mom and pop’ arrangements subsist but in decided disadvantage to the bigger entrepreneur” (p. 198). Although the major oil companies (and the publications they supported) apparently did not wish to draw attention to them, during the 1920s and 1930s the landscape was s…
Mathew Brady and the Image of History
Journal Article Mathew Brady and the Image of History. By Mary Panzer. (Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1997. xxiv, 232 pp. $39.95, ISBN 1-56098-793-6.) Heavily illustrated Get access Debby Applegate Debby Applegate Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 3, December 1998, Pages 1078–1079, https://doi.org/10.2307/25672…
Mathew Brady's Portraits
“Mathew Brady's Portraits: Images as History, Photography as Art.” National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, F St. at 8th N.W., Washington, DC 20560 Get access David P. Peeler David P. Peeler United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 1, June 1998, Pages 170–173, https://doi.org/10.2307/2568438 Published: 01 June …
Portraits of Conflict
Frances Benjamin Johnston
On 6 January 1898, the US National Museum acquired ‘pictorial studies’ by Frederick Hollyer, W. A. Martin, Henry Peach Robinson, Oscar Rejlander, and Julia Margaret Cameron, in a group of sixty-nine photographs that included many illustrations of new and old technical processes such as paper prints, paper negatives, a Talbotype, carbon prints, glass transparencies, ‘color specimens’, and Woodburytypes. The group also included portraits of noted p…
The George Kendall Warren photography collection
A collection of letters, journals, scrapbooks, daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, cartes-de-visites, and cabinet cards made by George Kendall Warren (1832–84) documents both an important career and the evolution of celebrity photography during the years following the Civil War (figure 1). Warren began his career in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1851 as a maker of daguerreotypes; by 1858, he had begun to produce photographs on salted paper. That year, Warren…
Tender Violence
Laura Wexler takes her title from Samuel Chapman Armstrong, founder of Hampton Institute, whose phrase described how to educate ex-slaves and Native Americans. This historic institution (now Hampton University) is still known through photographs made by Frances Benjamin Johnston and exhibited in 1900 at the Paris Exposition, part of the display on American Negro life. In her clear, complex, insightful book, Wexler explores the ideology that linke…
Invention of Hysteria
Reviewed by: Invention of Hysteria: Charcot and the Photographic Iconography of the Salpêtrière Mary Panzer (bio) Invention of Hysteria: Charcot and the Photographic Iconography of the Salpêtrière. By Georges Didi-Huberman, trans. Alisa Hartz. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2003. Pp. xii+336. $34.95. Jean-Martin Charcot is familiar to historians of medicine as clinical chair of diseases of the nervous system at the Salpêtrière (a French asylum for …
Picturing Poverty
Reviewed by: Picturing Poverty: Print Culture and FSA Photographs Mary Panzer (bio) Picturing Poverty: Print Culture and FSA Photographs. By Cara A. Finnegan. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2003. Pp. xxviii+260. $36.95. In this significant book, Cara Finnegan approaches an old question from a new point of view. Where other scholars of the Farm Security Administration (FSA) identify their disciplines as art history, agricultural …
At the Edge of Sight
Reviewed by: At the Edge of Sight: Photography and the Unseen by Shawn Michelle Smith Mary Panzer (bio) At the Edge of Sight: Photography and the Unseen. By Shawn Michelle Smith. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2013. Pp. xvii+293. $99.95/$28.95. This book comprises a collection of essays on the work of photographers of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—F. Holland Day, Eadweard Muybridge, A. J. Russell, Chansonetta Stanley Emmons, as…
Berenice Abbott
Reviewed by: Berenice Abbott: A Life in Photography by Julia Van Haaften Mary Panzer (bio) Berenice Abbott: A Life in Photography. By Julia Van Haaften. New York: W. W. Norton, 2018. Pp. 634. Hardcover $28.46. Berenice Abbott (1898–1982) is well known to the photography world for her breathtaking shot of New York at Night (1932); her architectural views, Changing New York, made in the 1930s; her sparkling portraits of the cultural avant-garde mad…
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