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Looking Backward: A Photographic Portrait of the World at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century

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Looking Backward: A Photographic Portrait of the World at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century - Lesy, Michael, PH.D.
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At the turn of the twentieth century, the stereograph was king. Its binocular images revealed the world in vivid, three-dimensional detail. Drawing on an enormous, rarely seen collection of stereographic views, Michael Lesy presents images displaying a riot of peoples and cultures, stark class divisions and unsettling glimpses of daily life a century ago. Lesy's evocative essays reassert the primacy of the stereograph in American visual history. In underscoring the unnerving parallels between that period and our own, ...

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Looking Backward: A Photographic Portrait of the World at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century 2017, W. W. Norton & Company

ISBN-13: 9780393239737

Hardcover