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

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

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Availability:In StockContributor:Alan TrachtenbergPublish date:1990-11-01Pages:352
Language:EnglishPublisher:Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plISBN-13:9780374522490ISBN-10:374522499UPC:9780374522490Book Category:Photography, HistoryBook Subcategory:History, HistoriographySize:9.20 x 6.10 x 0.80 inchesWeight:1.1001Product ID:SCDVP582GX

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

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photographs, presenting them not as static images but rather as rich cultural texts suffused with meaning and historical content.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...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plISBN-13:9780374522490ISBN-10:374522499UPC:9780374522490Book Category:Photography, HistoryBook Subcategory:History, HistoriographySize:9.20 x 6.10 x 0.80 inchesWeight:1.1001Product ID:SCDVP582GX

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.


Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl

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