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Jun. 30 | 2012 Bode-Pearson Prize
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Birt, Rodger C. "Envisioning the City: Photography in the History of San Francisco, 1850-1906," Yale University, December 1985.
This dissertation studies the social context of the San Francisco-based photographers and their work from the California Gold Rush to the San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906. The careers of leading photographers during this period are investigated in terms of the varied relationships of the photographers and their work to the urban community. The major forms of photographic representation popular throughout the last half of the nineteenth century and the first decade of the twentieth century (cased photographs, albums, prints on paper, and process halftone reproductions) and the resulting representations of portraits, cityscapes, and landscapes form the focus of the study. The intimate connection of photography to all social levels of the city’s population and the new medium’s impact on American Victorian society in an urban setting are detailed in this dissertation. In addition, the aesthetic concerns of the photographers and their attempts to adapt these artistic issues to the demands of the particular economic and cultural environment in which they worked are carefully considered.
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