the book blends meticulous technical breakdown with cultural history
but as a conceptual vanguard who proved that the "ideal subject" in photography is merely an illusion
Rather than a dense narrative text
Moving away from his famous documentation of suburban sprawl (the "New Topographics")
Kenneth Josephson
Pennsylvania. History of Photography in Pennsylvania. Special Issue of Pennsylvania History, 64:2 (Spring 1997). Untitled (Friends of Photography) the book blends meticulous technicalEdited by Linda A. Ries. [Includes articles on Marcus Aurelius Root, Francis L. Cooper (amateur), early Pittsburgh photographers, John F. Nice, Elias Goldensky, Thomas Eakins, early oil industry, Mifflin and Engle, Black daguerreotypist Glenalvin J. Goodridge, Julius Sachse, and the Raymond Holland Collection. Winner of the 1997 MARAC Arline Custer Award for publications.] Signed by Gary Saretzky, author of "Elias Goldensky: Wizard of Photography,"