American photographs in Europe / edited by David E. Nye, Mick Gidley ; with contributions from Mick Gidley [and others].

Amsterdam : VU University Press, 1994.

281 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

European contributions to American studies ; 29

This collection of essays explores how American photographs entered European culture. From the 1840s on, photographs contributed to stereotypes of the United States, interpreting American events and characteristic landscapes. This was a complex process, in which Europeans were intimately involved, both as photographers and as disseminators of American images. Photographs were always inflected during the process of cultural transmission. They were cropped, captioned, and positioned within new frames of reference. For example, New Deal photographs received an entirely new set of meanings in Nazi Germany. Likewise, in the contexts of world's fairs, mass distribution magazines, art exhibitions, advertising and immigration, American images played a central role in defining what was considered distinctive about the United States. This path-breaking work charts the contours of this area of intercultural communication for the first time and is arranged as a series of case studies within a chronological and theoretical framework provided by the editors.

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Photography United States Influence.
Photography United States History.
Photography Europe History.
Photographie Europe Histoire.
Civilization American influences.
Photography.
Photography Influence.
Public opinion, European.
Fotografie
Geschichte
Aufsatzsammlung
Foto's.
Amerikanen.
Photography United States.
Photojournalism.
Europe Civilization American influences.
United States Foreign public opinion, European.
Europe Civilisation Influence américaine.
Europe.
United States.
USA
Europa
United States Pictorial works.

History.

Nye, David E., 1946-
Gidley, M. (Mick)
European contributions to American studies ; 29.

Location: Library main 237067
Call No.: BIB 166890
Status: Available