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Reading American photographs : images as history, Mathew Brady to Walker Evans
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...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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[New York, NY] :
Hill and Wang,
1989.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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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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xxi, 326 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-314). |
| ISBN: |
0809080370 9780809080373 0374522499 9780374522490 |