Research Catalog

Title

Winslow Homer and the camera : photography and the art of painting / Dana E. Byrd, Frank H. Goodyear III.

Publication

• Brunswick, Maine : Bowdoin College Museum of Art ; New Haven ; London : In association with Yale University Press, [2018]
• ©2018

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Details

Additional Authors

• Goodyear, Frank H., III, 1967-
• Byrd, Dana E.
• Homer, Winslow, 1836-1910.
• Bowdoin College. Museum of Art, organzier, issuing body, host institution.
• Brandywine River Museum of Art, host institution.

Description

xi, 196 pages : illustrations (some color); 29 cm

Summary

A revelatory exploration of Winslow Homer's engagement with photography, shedding new light on his celebrated paintings and works on paper. One of the greatest American painters of the 19th century, Winslow Homer (1836-1910) also maintained a deep engagement with photography throughout his career. Focusing on the important, yet often-overlooked, role that photography played in Homer's art, this volume exposes Homer's own experiments with the camera (he first bought one in 1882). It also explores how the medium of photography and the larger visual economy influenced his work as a painter, watercolorist, and printmaker at a moment when new print technologies inundated the public with images. Frank Goodyear and Dana Byrd demonstrate that photography offered Homer new ways of seeing and representing the world, from his early commercial engravings sourced from contemporary photographs to the complex relationship between his late-career paintings of life in the Bahamas, Florida, and Cuba and the emergent trend of tourist photography. The authors argue that Homer's understanding of the camera's ability to create an image that is simultaneously accurate and capable of deception was vitally important to his artistic practice in all media. Richly illustrated and full of exciting new discoveries, Winslow Homer and the Camera is a long-overdue examination of the ways in which photography shaped the vision of one of America's most original painters.

Subjects

• Art and photography
• Art and photography > 19th century > Exhibitions
• Homer, Winslow, 1836-1910 > Exhibitions
• Exhibition catalogs

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.

Note

• Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine, June 22-October 28, 2018 and at the Brandywine River Museum of Art, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, November 17, 2018-February 17, 2019.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 188-190).

Contents

A good thing when he sees it: Winslow Homer, photography, and the art of painting / Frank H. Goodyear III -- Plates -- Trouble in paradise?: Winslow Homer in the Bahamas, Cuba, and Florida, 1884-1886 / Dana E. Byrd -- Plates.

Call Number

JQF 18-1367

ISBN

• 9780300214550
• 0300214553

LCCN

2017948833

OCLC

1005103014

Title

Winslow Homer and the camera : photography and the art of painting / Dana E. Byrd, Frank H. Goodyear III.

Publisher

Brunswick, Maine : Bowdoin College Museum of Art ; New Haven ; London : In association with Yale University Press, [2018]

Copyright Date

©2018

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 188-190).

Added Author

Goodyear, Frank H., III, 1967- writer of added commentary.

Byrd, Dana E., writer of added commentary.

Container of (work): Homer, Winslow, 1836-1910. Works. Selections.

Bowdoin College. Museum of Art, organzier, issuing body, host institution.

Brandywine River Museum of Art, host institution.

Research Call Number

JQF 18-1367