Reading American photographs : images as history, Mathew Brady to Walker Evans / Alan Trachtenberg.

Main entry:

Trachtenberg, Alan.

Title & Author:

Reading American photographs : images as history, Mathew Brady to Walker Evans / Alan Trachtenberg.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

[New York, N.Y.] : Hill and Wang, 1989.

Description:

xxi, 326 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
List of photographs: p. [ix]-xii.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-314).

Summary:

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.

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ISBN:

0809080370
9780809080373
0374522499
9780374522490

Subject:

Documentary photography United States History.
Photography in historiography.
Documentary photography United States.
Photography, Artistic.
Photographie documentaire États-Unis Histoire.
Photographie en historiographie.
15.85 history of America.
Documentary photography
Fotografie
Quelle
Geschichte
Geschiedbeschouwing.
Photography United States History.
Photography Social aspects United States
United States History Pictorial works.
United States
USA
United States Social conditions

Form/genre:

Pictorial works
History
Photography, Artistic.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 57824
Call No.: ID:90-B617
Status: Available

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