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photographs, presenting them not as static images but rather as rich cultural texts suffused with meaning and historical content. Reading American Photographs is lavishly illustrated with the work of such luminaries as Mathew Brady, Timothy O'Sullivan, and Walker Evans--pictures that document the American experience from 1839 to 1938. In an outstanding analysis, Trachtenberg eloquently articulates how ...
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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photographs, presenting them not as static images but rather as rich cultural texts suffused with meaning and historical content. Reading American Photographs is lavishly illustrated with the work of such luminaries as Mathew Brady, Timothy O'Sullivan, and Walker Evans--pictures that document the American experience from 1839 to 1938. In an outstanding analysis, Trachtenberg eloquently articulates how the art of photography has both followed and shaped the course of American history, and how images captured decades ago provocatively illuminate the present.
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Add this copy of Reading American Photographs: Images as History, Mathew to cart. $30.10, very good condition, Sold by Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Marietta, PA, UNITED STATES, published 1989 by Hill and Wang.
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VG. Blue and white DJ with photo illustration and black lettering; dark and light blue boards with gilt lettering; xxi, 326 pp.; illustrations. Considers five documentary sequences or narratives: the antebellum portraits of Mathew Brady and others; the Civil War albums of Alexander Gardner, George Barnard and A.J. Russell; the Western survey and landscape photographs of Timothy O'Sullivan, A.J. Russell, and Carleton Watkins; and social photographs and texts by Alfred Stieglitz and Lewis Hine; as well as documentaries inspired by the Depression, esp. Walker Evans's American Photographs. --WorldCat.
Add this copy of Reading American Photography, Images as History: Mathew to cart. $43.75, good condition, Sold by Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Marietta, PA, UNITED STATES, published 1989 by Hill and Wang.
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VG-(ex-library w/ stamps to upper & lower textblock, endpaper & title pg; card pocket on back cover pastedown. dustjacket has edge-wear; plastic cover has ID to spine; taped to cover edges) Blue boards w/ black quarter spine. book xxi, 326 pgs w/ bw illustratins. blue, illustrated dustjacket w/ protective plastic. Pages clean and bright. From a former college library; library card stamped twice. "Considers five documentary sequences or narratives: the antebellum portraits of Mathew Brady and others; the Civil War albums of Alexander Gardner, George Barnard and A.J. Russell; the Western survey and landscape photographs of Timothy O'Sullivan, A.J. Russell, and Carleton Watkins; and social photographs and texts by Alfred Stieglitz and Lewis Hine; as well as documentaries inspired by the Depression, esp. Walker Evans's American Photographs."-WorldCat.
Add this copy of Reading American Photographs: Images as History-Mathew to cart. $90.23, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1989 by Hill and Wang.
Add this copy of Reading American Photographs: Images as History-Mathew to cart. $114.56, new condition, Sold by Just one more Chapter, ships from Miramar, FL, UNITED STATES, published 1989 by Hill and Wang.
