Author : Alan Trachtenberg
Release : 1990-11
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 490/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Reading American Photographs by : Alan Trachtenberg
Download or read book Reading American Photographs written by Alan Trachtenberg. This book was released on 1990-11. 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.