From Library Journal
Photography was central to the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893. Not only did many of the exhibits feature photographs, but photography was the medium by which the exposition itself was documented. Behind the scenes, exposition officials licensed photographic concessions and regulated the equipment used. As might be expected, considerable competition for exhibition space ensued among various photographers and between photographers and manufacturers. Brown has researched an important aspect of the World's Columbian Exposition, revealing how the fair was organized, managed, and received by visitors. Most important, she documents the exposition's individual exhibitors (many of them women photographers), manufacturers, and competing photographic salons. The book's many newly reproduced and fascinating illustrations, excellent notes, appendix of exhibitors, and wide-ranging bibliography will be very useful to photohistorians. Highly recommended for photohistory and American popular culture collections.
Kathleen Collins, New York Transit Museum Archives, Brooklyn
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Kathleen Collins, New York Transit Museum Archives, Brooklyn
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
