Miles Orvell

Biographic Data

ID679778
NAMEMiles Orvell
GIVEN NAMESMiles
FAMILY NAMEOrvell
SIGNATUREORVELL M
AFFILIATIONSTemple University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS18
TOTAL CITATIONS2
AUTHOR COUNT18
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1973
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • Framing Ruins: Impermanence and American Cultural Narratives

    Miles OrvellARTICLERevue française d’études…2025References: 3

  • America in Ruins: Photography as Cultural Narrative

    Miles OrvellARTICLEAmerican Art2015

  • The Absolute Power of the Lens: Zoe Strauss and the Problem of the Street Portrait

    Miles OrvellARTICLEAfterimage2012

    Research Article| September 01 2012 The Absolute Power of the Lens: Zoe Strauss and the Problem of the Street Portrait Miles Orvell Miles Orvell MILES ORVELL is professor of English and American studies at Temple University and author of American Photography (Oxford History of Art Series) (2003) and many other books and articles on photography. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (2012) 40 (2): 10–…

  • Public Space and the Ideology of Place in American Culture

    Jeffrey L Meikle, Miles OrvellBOOKPublic Space and the Ideology of…2009

  • Faux Real: Genuine Leather and 200 Years of Inspired Fakes (review)

    Miles OrvellARTICLETechnology and Culture2009

    Reviewed by: Faux Real: Genuine Leather and 200 Years of Inspired Fakes Miles Orvell (bio) Faux Real: Genuine Leather and 200 Years of Inspired Fakes. By Robert Kanigel. Washington, D.C.: Joseph Henry Press, 2007. Pp vii+288. $27.95. Here’s a test of your haptic personality: Which would you rather touch? Oak or formica? Silk or polyester? Brick or plastic? Vinyl or leather? Assuming you went for the real over the fake, what is it about “real thin…

  • Virtual culture and the logic of American technology

    Miles OrvellARTICLERevue française d’études…1998

    Cet article analyse l'expérience culturelle américaine à travers la médiation technologique, de ses origines à l'ère virtuelle. La thèse développée consiste à soutenir que la réalité virtuelle contemporaine se place sur un continuum, non pas une rupture, avec des formes culturelles prévalentes aux États-Unis depuis le XIXe siècle au moins. L'article explore l'articulation de ces formes à travers la poésie et l'imaginaire romantique tout autant qu…

  • After the Machine: Visual Arts and the Erasing of Cultural Boundaries

    Gregory D Sumner, Miles OrvellARTICLETechnology and Culture1997

  • Stieglitz and the destructive element

    Miles OrvellARTICLEHistory of Photography1996

    Stieglitz's penchant for self-mythologizing is well known, and one of his best known stories is how he came to create The Steerage: the ennui of travelling frrst-class to Europe, the momentary glimpse of the lower-class passengers on the boat as an arrangement of shapes and forms, the rush back to his room for his camera and the hope that everything would still be there when he returned (it was), the single exposure, the drama of developing and p…

  • Dorothea Lange: A Visual Life

    Miles Orvell, Bill Jersey et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1995Cited by: 1

    Journal Article Dorothea Lange: A Visual Life. Prod. by Bill Jersey, Nancy Hale, Elizabeth Partridge, and Meg Partridge. Dir. by Meg Partridge. Pacific Pictures, 1994. 48 mins. (Pacific Pictures, 1400 Valley Ford Freestone Rd., Valley Ford, CA 94972-0305) Get access Miles Orvell Miles Orvell Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82…

  • Walker Evans and James Agee: The legacy

    Miles OrvellARTICLEHistory of Photography1993

    Has this fate befallen Agee and Evans? Has Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, at last, become famous? Were they here, the authors would, I imagine, have mixed feelings on an occasion like this,2 for they were anything but reverent toward the institutions that typically, in our society, seek to conserve the values embodied in great works of art. Even to call Famous Men a great work of art makes one nervous, given Agee's warning above. Thus, as he elsew…

  • The Spectator and the City in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

    Miles Orvell, Dana BrandARTICLEJournal of American History1993

    Journal Article The Spectator and the City in Nineteenth-Century American Literature. By Dana Brand. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991. viii + 242 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-521-36207-5.) Get access Miles Orvell Miles Orvell Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 1, June 1993, Page 269, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079759 Pu…

  • Iwo Jima: Monuments, Memories, and the American Hero . Karal Ann Marling , John Wetenhall

    Miles OrvellARTICLEWinterthur Portfolio1992

  • Weegee's Voyeurism and the Mastery of Urban Disorder

    Miles OrvellARTICLEAmerican Art1992

  • Lewis Hine: The Art of the Commonplace

    Miles OrvellARTICLEHistory of Photography1992

    The attention Hine has received in the past fifteen years has demonstrated unequivocally the central place he holds in the history of reform photography.1 The major figure after Riis, Hine serves as a link to the great FSA photographers of the thirties, who knew his work and followed his example, however different the circumstances of their own production. Lacking a Roy Stryker to shape his own production, Hine was able to develop in the first de…

  • Realism, Naturalism, Modernism: Three Revaluations

    Open AccessRaymond A Mazurek, Miles Orvell et al.ARTICLEAmerican Quarterly1991

  • Before Postmodernism

    Daniel T Rodgers, Miles OrvellARTICLEReviews in American History1990

  • The Real Thing: Imitation and Authenticity in American Culture, 1880-1940

    William B Dillingham, Miles OrvellARTICLEAmerican Literature1990

  • Invisible Parade: The Fiction of Flannery O'Connor

    Melvin J Friedman, Miles OrvellARTICLEAmerican Literature1973Cited by: 1