Urbanism, 61
U.S. Balloon Corps, 20
U.S. Camera,2
User re-loadable cameras, 221
USSR in Construction,40
Uzzle, Burt, 1600–1603
American, 1600–1602
Americanness, 1601
biography, 1602
everyday Americans, 1600
Florida’s Daytona Bike Week, 1601
further reading, 1603
group exhibitions, 1602, 1603
individual exhibitions, 1602
Leslie Fry and, 1602
National Endowment for the Arts Photography Fellowship,
1601
Newsweek, 1602
panoramic typologies of shredded papers, 1602
portraits, 1601
preference for wandering freely, 1601
selected works, 1603
subjects, 1601
visual music, 1602V
V&A,seeVictoria and Albert Museum
VanDerZee, James, 1608–1610
American, 1608, 1609
artistic portraits, 1607
biography, 1609
contrived settings, 1607
controversial exhibition, 1607
first solo retrospective, 1608
further reading, 1609, 1610
ghost image of child, 1607
group exhibitions, 1609
Guarantee Photo Studio, 1607
Harlem Renaissance, 1607
individual exhibitions, 1609
outdates portraits, 1607
painted backdrops, 1608
portraits, 1607
selected works, 1609
UNIA’s military-style events, 1607
Wedding Portrait: ‘Future Expectations’, 1607
Vanity Fair, 2, 308, 309
Van Vechten, Carl, 1605–1607
American, 1605, 1606
avant-garde opera, 1605
back-and-white portraits, 1605
biography, 1606
Chicago American, 1605
dance critic, 1605
further reading, 1607
group exhibitions, 1607
Harlem Renaissance, 1605
individual exhibitions, 1606, 1607
literary criticism, 1606
Photo-Secessionists and, 1606
post-impressionist painting, 1605
preserving the personalities of African-American culture, 1606
selected works, 1607Vernacular photography, 39, 1610–1616
aesthetic merit, 1615
aesthetic value, 1610
Andy Warhol and, 1615
Antiques Roadshow, 1615
Arts in Modern American Civilization, 1610, 1611
box camera, 1613
Brownie camera and, 1613
characterizations of, 1612
Collected Visions, 1616
collecting vernacular photographs, 1615
contesting of definition of, 1610
culture of, 1616
daguerreotype portraits, 1611
definition of snapshot, 1612
early daguerreotypey, 1613
everyday life, 1610
further reading, 1616
genre codes, 1610
Geoffrey Batchen and, 1610
good taste, 1610
images used against the grain, 1610
instincts, 1612
Kodaking, 1613
Kodak’s influence on snapshot genre, 1613
Kodak’s marketing of inexpensive cameras, 161
legibility over style, 1611
Lorie Novak’s web project, 1616
morphology of, 1614
negative construction, 1610
neoprint photo-sticker machines, 1614
new breed of photographers, 1613
newspaper clippings, 1611
Nikki S. Lee, 1615
non-aesthetic genres, 1610
nostalgia, 1611
origin of snapshot, 1613
other vernacular forms, 1614, 1615
paradoxical nature, 1611, 1616
parts series, 1615, 1616
Patricia Holland’s anthology, 1611
photographic hegemony, 1612
photography as democratic medium, 1613
Photography: A Middle Brow Art, 1612
photo-objects, 1614
Pop Photographicaexhibition, 1614
portable daguerreotypes, 1614
practically-oriented approach, 1610
private contexts, 1611
production of, 1612
qualities signifying value, 1615
Roland Barthes and, 1611
Snapshot Versions of Life, 1611
snapshot, 1612–1614
that-has-been, 1612
time capsules, 1615
vernacular photography as fine art, 1615, 1616
virtual reality and, 1620
visual codes, 1612
visual rhetoric, 1611
wedding portraits, 1614
Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), 1616, 1617
Class Seven, 1617
Creative cameraand, 341
first acquisitions of photographic art, 1617INDEX
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