Reading American Photographs: Images as History-Mathew Brady to Walker Evans by Trachtenberg, Alan

Reading American Photographs: Images as History-Mathew Brady to Walker Evans (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780374522490)

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Reading American Photographs: Images as History-Mathew Brady to Walker Evans by Trachtenberg, Alan

Reading American Photographs: Images as History-Mathew Brady to Walker Evans

$22.00
Reading American Photographs: Images as History-Mathew Brady to Walker Evans by Trachtenberg, Alan

Reading American Photographs: Images as History-Mathew Brady to Walker Evans

$22.00
Format: Paperback
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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photographs, presenting them not as static images but rather as rich cultural texts suffused with meaning and historical content.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.

Author: Alan Trachtenberg
ISBN-10: 0374522499
ISBN-13: 9780374522490
Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
Language: English
Published: 11/01/1990
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.10w x 0.80d
By Alan Trachtenberg
By Alan Trachtenberg
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Alan Trachtenberg, Neil Gray, Jr., Professor of English and American Studies at Yale University, is the author of The Incorporation of America: Culture and Society in the Gilded Age.

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