Reading American Photographs: Images As History, Mathew Brady to Walker Evans

book: Reading American Photographs: Images As History, Mathew Brady to Walker Evans | Alan Trachtenberg

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	Reading American Photographs: Images As History, Mathew Brady to Walker Evans Alan Trachtenberg Hill and Wang, 1990 - 336 pages average customer review:based on 1 review view larger image
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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photographs, presenting them not as static images but rather as rich cultural texts suffused with meaning and historical content.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 that document the American experience from 1839 to 1938. In an outstanding analysis, Trachtenberg eloquently articulates how the art of photography has both followed and shaped the course of American history, and how images captured decades ago provocatively illuminate the present.

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Heavy weight American Studies

If your interested in the mind of America, what we think and why we think it, Trachtenberg is your man. This is a very detailed, dense, and enjoyable work on the topic. It's premises are taken from the evidence gleaned from photographs and the history of the profession, a relatively new one (in the process of its own revolution from chemical to digital).

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