Reading American Photographs: Images As History, Mathew Brady to Walker Evans
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Review “Brilliantly elucidates how an informed cultural historian sees and interprets American images through the camera's eye.” ―Daniel Aaron, Harvard“Alan Trachtenberg's Reading American Photographs gives fresh and fascinating insights into the household names of phototgraphic history.” ―Cornell Capa“A splendid book [written with] learning and intellectual passion . . . thoroughly gratifying.” ―Alfred Kazin“This is a must read for those interested in culture and politics. He brilliantly interprets the past for thepresent.” ―Wanda M. Corn, Standford University“As Mr. Trachtenberg concludes, 'It is not so much a new but a clarifying light American photographs shed upon American relaity.' That light, as he has richly demonstrated, now illuminates our past in inescapable and powerful ways.” ―Williams S. McFeely, The New York Times Read more About the Author Alan Trachtenberg, Neil Gray, Jr., Professor of English and American Studies at Yale University, is the author of The Incorporation of America: Culture and Society in the Gilded Age. Read more
Reviews
Highly detailed but readable. More appropriate for a historian than a photographer. Unfortunately narrative ends with Walker Evan. Also, survey of relevant photographers is a bit thin. Nonetheless, remains an interesting read. Focus is the epistemological relationship between historical analysis and photography as an historical research tool.
