Peggy Ann Kusnerz
Biographic Data
| ID | 7246563 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peggy Ann Kusnerz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peggy Ann |
| FAMILY NAME | Kusnerz |
| SIGNATURE | KUSNERZ P A |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Helmut Gernsheim reconsidered
This publication assembles the papers presented at the 2003 annual meeting of the European Society for the History of Photography (ESHPh). The symposium was devoted in large part to the life and work of pioneering historian of photography, Helmut Gernsheim (1913–1995). Born in Munich, Gernsheim studied the history of art at the University of Munich and photography at the State School. He emigrated to England in 1937 and worked as a photographer f…
Photography and the book
This wallet-sized publication is a meditation on the relationship between book and photograph, text and image. Light Bound contains only brief text and a modest portfolio of photographs. But, while the topic has been developed at greater length in other venues (for example, the autumn 2002 issue of History of Photography), this volume distinctly approaches the subject with grace and wit
Japanese photography
The rich and fascinating history of photography in Japan has been, in large part, inaccessible to non-readers of Japanese. Fortunately, the recent publication of several books in English will serve to rectify that situation. Massive and comprehensive, The History of Japanese Photography (Yale University Press/Museum of Fine Arts, Houston 2003), surveys 150 years of photographic activity. This landmark publication will be reviewed in a forthcoming…
At First Light’
A visitor to the Harry Ransom Center, on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin, is soon rewarded. An exhibition hall, containing changing displays of material drawn from the Center's rich collections, lies immediately beyond the foyer.' Before entering this gallery, however, the visitor is confronted with two kiosks. The kiosks are architecturally fashioned to resemble venerable temples, and appropriately so, for these cubicles enclose …
Pictorialism in Japan
The achievement of art photographers in Japan during the inter-war years is relatively unknown in the West. The dearth of surviving material and the prominence of Western Modernism in standard histories contribute to this lacuna. But, as this modestly-sized exhibition catalogue makes clear, pictorial and modernist photography thrived in Japan during the 1920s and early 1930s. Uncovering this history is a delight to the eye and enriches our unders…
Aerial views
This handsome monograph, which accompanies a travelling exhibition of the same title, reproduces 92 aerial photographs Gowin made in the United States, Asia, the Middle East and the Czech Republic since 1986. These are bittersweet photographs. On first sight, the eye is taken with the striking abstract forms rendered with a startling metallic gloss. A closer study, usually following the reading of a caption, profoundly shifts the viewer's respons…
Masters of American photography
On 13 June 2002, the United States Postal Service issued a collection of twenty first-class stamps presenting the work of notable American photographers. Each stamp in the ‘Masters of American Photography’ series depicts a photograph characteristic of one of those ‘masters’. Uniformly reproduced in black and white, the stamps feature, among the work of others, portraits by James VanDerZee and Imogen Cunningham, images of war by Timothy O'Sullivan…
An Artist's Photograph Collection
Olana, the extraordinary private home of American painter Frederic Church, perches high above the Hudson River, with commanding views of the Catskill Mountains and the verdant countryside, approximately 120 miles north of New York City (figure 1). Frederic Edwin Church (1826–1900), the internationally recognized painter of exotic locales and the North American landscape, lived much of his adult life at Olana, and it was here he retreated when art…
The artful use of light
This year all Scotland celebrated the bicentenary of the birth of David Octavius Hill (1802–70). Cultural institutions in Edinburgh, Linlithgow, Glasgow, Perth and St Andrews organized exhibitions of Hill's paintings and of the calotypes Hill produced in association with Robert Adamson (1821–48). Every school in Scotland received a resource pack containing reproductions of calotypes and information concerning these two men. In addition, The Sun W…
Old China Bookshop, Peking, c.1933–46
On the desk in the foreground one sees evidence of ‘The Four Treasures of the Room of Literature’, those items essential for every classical Chinese scholar: the brush, the ink stick, the ink stone, and paper. The ink stick, however, has been carefully stored away, as is proper, now that the writing has begun. The desk also holds a porcelain brush-washer and a wooden brush-rack, the first to use in removing ink and the second to use in drying. Th…
Current research on William Henry Fox Talbot
Survey histories of photography
What is the history of photography? Since the late nineteenth century, authors have attempted to answer this question in one-volume narrative studies. This literature is rich, international, and varied in scope and content. Accounts of this literature have appeared periodically. In this journal, Martin Gasser (1992) classified the histories of photography written, between 1839 and 1939, in English, French, and German. He grouped these early histo…
Digital photography in print
(1998). Digital photography in print: A select bibliography. History of Photography: Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 27-30
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Digital photography in print
(1998). Digital photography in print: A select bibliography. History of Photography: Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 27-30
Current research on William Henry Fox Talbot
Survey histories of photography
What is the history of photography? Since the late nineteenth century, authors have attempted to answer this question in one-volume narrative studies. This literature is rich, international, and varied in scope and content. Accounts of this literature have appeared periodically. In this journal, Martin Gasser (1992) classified the histories of photography written, between 1839 and 1939, in English, French, and German. He grouped these early histo…
Old China Bookshop, Peking, c.1933–46
On the desk in the foreground one sees evidence of ‘The Four Treasures of the Room of Literature’, those items essential for every classical Chinese scholar: the brush, the ink stick, the ink stone, and paper. The ink stick, however, has been carefully stored away, as is proper, now that the writing has begun. The desk also holds a porcelain brush-washer and a wooden brush-rack, the first to use in removing ink and the second to use in drying. Th…
Aerial views
This handsome monograph, which accompanies a travelling exhibition of the same title, reproduces 92 aerial photographs Gowin made in the United States, Asia, the Middle East and the Czech Republic since 1986. These are bittersweet photographs. On first sight, the eye is taken with the striking abstract forms rendered with a startling metallic gloss. A closer study, usually following the reading of a caption, profoundly shifts the viewer's respons…
Masters of American photography
On 13 June 2002, the United States Postal Service issued a collection of twenty first-class stamps presenting the work of notable American photographers. Each stamp in the ‘Masters of American Photography’ series depicts a photograph characteristic of one of those ‘masters’. Uniformly reproduced in black and white, the stamps feature, among the work of others, portraits by James VanDerZee and Imogen Cunningham, images of war by Timothy O'Sullivan…
An Artist's Photograph Collection
Olana, the extraordinary private home of American painter Frederic Church, perches high above the Hudson River, with commanding views of the Catskill Mountains and the verdant countryside, approximately 120 miles north of New York City (figure 1). Frederic Edwin Church (1826–1900), the internationally recognized painter of exotic locales and the North American landscape, lived much of his adult life at Olana, and it was here he retreated when art…
The artful use of light
This year all Scotland celebrated the bicentenary of the birth of David Octavius Hill (1802–70). Cultural institutions in Edinburgh, Linlithgow, Glasgow, Perth and St Andrews organized exhibitions of Hill's paintings and of the calotypes Hill produced in association with Robert Adamson (1821–48). Every school in Scotland received a resource pack containing reproductions of calotypes and information concerning these two men. In addition, The Sun W…
Japanese photography
The rich and fascinating history of photography in Japan has been, in large part, inaccessible to non-readers of Japanese. Fortunately, the recent publication of several books in English will serve to rectify that situation. Massive and comprehensive, The History of Japanese Photography (Yale University Press/Museum of Fine Arts, Houston 2003), surveys 150 years of photographic activity. This landmark publication will be reviewed in a forthcoming…
At First Light’
A visitor to the Harry Ransom Center, on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin, is soon rewarded. An exhibition hall, containing changing displays of material drawn from the Center's rich collections, lies immediately beyond the foyer.' Before entering this gallery, however, the visitor is confronted with two kiosks. The kiosks are architecturally fashioned to resemble venerable temples, and appropriately so, for these cubicles enclose …
Pictorialism in Japan
The achievement of art photographers in Japan during the inter-war years is relatively unknown in the West. The dearth of surviving material and the prominence of Western Modernism in standard histories contribute to this lacuna. But, as this modestly-sized exhibition catalogue makes clear, pictorial and modernist photography thrived in Japan during the 1920s and early 1930s. Uncovering this history is a delight to the eye and enriches our unders…
Helmut Gernsheim reconsidered
This publication assembles the papers presented at the 2003 annual meeting of the European Society for the History of Photography (ESHPh). The symposium was devoted in large part to the life and work of pioneering historian of photography, Helmut Gernsheim (1913–1995). Born in Munich, Gernsheim studied the history of art at the University of Munich and photography at the State School. He emigrated to England in 1937 and worked as a photographer f…
Photography and the book
This wallet-sized publication is a meditation on the relationship between book and photograph, text and image. Light Bound contains only brief text and a modest portfolio of photographs. But, while the topic has been developed at greater length in other venues (for example, the autumn 2002 issue of History of Photography), this volume distinctly approaches the subject with grace and wit
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