Reading American Photographs: Images As History-Mathew Brady to Walker Evans
- ISBN-10
- 0374522499
- ISBN-13
- 9780374522490
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 326
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1990-11
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Author
- Alan Trachtenberg
Description
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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- 1989-08-23
- 326 pages
- Paperback
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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