Reading American Photographs

Reading American Photographs
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Publisher : Macmillan
Total Pages : 356
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ISBN-10 : 0374522499
ISBN-13 : 9780374522490
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Book Synopsis Reading American Photographs by : Alan Trachtenberg

Download or read book Reading American Photographs written by Alan Trachtenberg and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1990-11 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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