The work of Dornith Doherty, MFA, professor of photography at UNT's College of Visual Arts and Design, is included in the fifth edition of A World History of Photography. Doherty is a UNT Distinguished Research Professor, 2012 Guggenheim Foundation Fellow, who holds a B.A. cum laude from Rice University, Houston, Texas, and a MFA in Photography from Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
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Diana C. Stoll, MFA, independent curator, writer, and editor, and former senior editor at Aperture, revised and updated the text of Naomi Rosenblum's classic history of photography that traces the evolution of this young art form chronologically and thematically. Exploring the diverse roles that photography has played in the communication of ideas, Rosenblum devotes special attention to topics such as portraiture, documentation, advertising, and photojournalism, and to the camera as a means of personal artistic expression. Her text is illustrated with nearly nine hundred images by photographers both celebrated and little known, arranged in stimulating juxtapositions that illuminate their visual power.
This fifth edition of A World History of Photography is substantively revised and updated by Stoll. The photography of the past several decades is reevaluated from a contemporary perspective, and international developments are covered in greater detail. The main strands of today's complex universe of digital image-making are masterfully summarized and placed in their historical context, and the careers of representative contemporary photographers are studied in depth.