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Edward Steichen (1879-1973) played a key role in the development of photography in the twentieth century. He is well known for his varied career as an artist, a celebrated photographer and a museum curator. However, Steichen is less known for his pivotal role in shaping America's first experiments in aerial photography as a tool for intelligence gathering in what may be called his 'lost years'. In Camera Aloft, Von Hardesty tells how Steichen volunteered in 1917 to serve in the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF). He rose rapidly in the ranks of the Air Service, emerging as Chief of Air Photography during the dramatic final offensives of the war. His photo sections were responsible for the rapid processing of aerial images gained through the daily and hazardous sorties over the front and in the enemy rear areas. What emerged in the eighteen months of his active service was a new template for modern aerial reconnaissance. The aerial camera, as with new weapons such as the machine gun, the tank and the airplane, profoundly transformed modern warfare.
War photography --- War photographers --- World War, 1914-1918 --- Aerial observation (Military science) --- European War, 1914-1918 --- First World War, 1914-1918 --- Great War, 1914-1918 --- World War 1, 1914-1918 --- World War I, 1914-1918 --- World War One, 1914-1918 --- WW I (World War, 1914-1918) --- WWI (World War, 1914-1918) --- History, Modern --- Aeronautics, Military --- Air observation (Military science) --- Military aerial observation --- Observation, Aerial (Military science) --- Aerial reconnaissance --- Combat photography --- Photography, Combat --- Photography, War --- Documentary photography --- Photojournalism --- Campaigns --- Aerial operations, American. --- History --- Photography. --- Observations --- Steichen, Edward, --- Steichen, Eduard J., --- Sutaiken, Edowādo,
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Photography Changes Everything—drawn from the online Smithsonian Photography Initiative—offers a provocative rethinking of photography’s impact on our culture and our lives. It is a reader-friendly exploration of the many ways photographs package information and values, demand and hold attention, and shape our knowledge of and experience in the world. At this transitional moment in visual culture, Photography Changes Everything provides a unique opportunity to better understand the history, practice, and power of photography. The publication harnesses the extraordinary visual assets of the Smithsonian Institution’s museums, science centers, and archives to trigger an unprecedented and interdisciplinary dialogue about how photography does more than record the world—it shapes and changes every aspect of our experience of it. The book features over three hundred images and nearly one hundred engaging short texts commissioned from experts, writers, inventors, public figures, and everyday folk—Hugh Hefner, John Baldessari, John Waters, Robert Adams, Sandra Phillips, and others. Each story responds to images selected by project contributors. Together they engage readers in a timely exploration of the extent to which our lives have been transformed through our interactions with photographic imagery.
Philosophy --- Photography --- photography [process] --- philosophy --- social history --- filosofie --- fotografie --- sociale geschiedenis --- 760.4 --- cultuurgeschiedenis --- cultuurkritiek --- kunstfilosofie --- sociologie --- Social aspects --- fotografie als kunst --- 77.01 --- fotografiegeschiedenis --- fotografietheorie --- Photographie --- Photography - Social aspects --- Photography - Philosophy
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