Main entry:

Kaplan, Louis, 1960-

Title & Author:

American exposures : photography and community in the twentieth century / Louis Kaplan.

Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2005.

Description:

xxxviii, 243 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : community-exposed photography -- "Living photographs" and the formation of national community : reviewing the troops with Mole, Goldbeck, and company -- "We don't know" : Archibald MacLeish's Land of the free and the question of American community -- Photo globe : the family of man and the global rhetoric of photography -- Photography and the exposure of community : reciting Nan Goldin's Ballad -- Community in fragments : Romare Bearden's projections and the interruption of myth -- Slashing toward diaspora : on Frédéric Brenner's Jews/america/a representation -- Digital Chicanos : Pedro Meyer, Truths & fictions, and border theory -- Performing community : Nikki S. Lee's photographic rites of passing.

Summary:

"American Exposures sheds light on photographs, from Arthur Mole's propagandistic 'living photographs' of American icons and symbols to the exploration of contemporary subcultural communities by the Korean-born photographer and performance artist Nikki Lee, and asserts that the depiction of community is a central component to photography. Louis Kaplan deploys a number of critical concepts and theories developed by Jean-Luc Nancy in The Inoperative Community, as well as other philosophers, and applies them to the field of photography studies. With an original approach to photography from Edward Steichen's Family of Man exhibition to Pedro Meyer and the rise of the digital image, Kaplan points to a new way to think about the intimate relationship among photography, American life, and the artistic imagination."--Back cover.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents
Publisher description
Table of contents

ISBN:

0816645698 (hc ; alk. paper)
9780816645695 (hc ; alk. paper)
0816645701 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780816645701

Subject:

Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld
Photography, Artistic.
Photography United States.
Photography Social aspects United States History 20th century.
Photography United States History 20th century.
Photographie États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle.
Photographie Aspect social États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle.
Photographie artistique.
art photography.
Photography Social aspects
Photography
Alltag
Fotografie
Gesellschaft.
Photographie.
United States Pictorial works.
United States
USA

Form/genre:

illustrated books.
History
Illustrated works
Pictorial works
Ouvrages illustrés.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 247944
Call No.: BIB 177482
Status: Available