Reading American Photographs: Images As History, Mathew Brady to Walker Evans
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Book Overview
Winner of the Charles C. Eldredge Prize In this book, Alan Trachtenberg reinterprets some of America's most significant photographs, presenting them not as static images but rather as rich cultural... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0374522499
ISBN13:9780374522490
Release Date:November 1990
Publisher:Hill and Wang
Length:352 Pages
Weight:1.14 lbs.
Dimensions:9.0" x 0.8" x 6.0"
Customer Reviews
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A must
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 15 years ago
Trachtenberg's subtitle of Images as History , Mathew Brady to Walker Evans does no do the contents of book justice. This well-written and consrtucted book covers much more than from Mathew Brady to Walker Evasn, it also broaches photography subjects that were previously found in the realms of art history, architectual photographs, and of sociology, afroamerican representations. Ths book is a treasure for anyone interested in photography, America and its history.
Heavy weight American Studies
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 17 years ago
If your interested in the mind of America, what we think and why we think it, Trachtenberg is your man. This is a very detailed, dense, and enjoyable work on the topic. It's premises are taken from the evidence gleaned from photographs and the history of the profession, a relatively new one (in the process of its own revolution from chemical to digital).
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