The American photo-text, 1930-1960. (2019)
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- The American photo-text, 1930-1960. (2019)
- Main Title:
- The American photo-text, 1930-1960
- Further Information:
- Note: Caroline Blinder.
- Authors:
- Blinder, Caroline, 1967-
- Other Names:
- British Association for American Studies.
- Contents:
- Acknowledgments; List of Illustrations; Introduction: The American Phototext; Part I: The 1930s; 1. Portraiture as Place: From Pictorialism to Modernism: Doris Ulman and Julia Peterkin's Roll, Jordan, Roll (1933); 2. Articulating the Depression: Two Contesting Visions: Dorothea Lange and Paul Taylor's American Exodus (1939) and Margaret Bourke White and Erskine Caldwell's You Have Seen Their Faces (1937); 3. Establishing A photographic Vernacular: Walker Evans's American Photographs (1938); Part II: The 1940s; 4. 'A Book for All that': Modernism as Documentary Practice: James Agee and Walker Evans's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941); 5. The American Heartland: Interrogating a Post-War Pastoral: Wright Morris's The Inhabitants (1945) and The Home Place (1948); 6. 'Their First Murder': Hardboiled Captions and Flashgun Aesthetics: Weegee's Naked City (1945); Part III: The 1950s; 7. An American Alphabet: Writing Democracy in New England: Paul Strand and Nancy Newhall's Time In New England (1950); 8. Back at Home: Neighborhood and Community in the 1950s: Langston Hughes and Ray DeCarava's Sweet Flypaper of Life (1955); 8. 'On The Road': The Photographer as Outsider: Jack Kerouac's Introduction to Robert Frank's The Americans (1959); Conclusion; Index. Acknowledgments List of Illustrations Introduction: The American Phototext Part I: The 1930s 1. Portraiture as Place: From Pictorialism to ModernismDoris Ulman and Julia Peterkin's Roll, Jordan, Roll (1933) 2. Articulating theAcknowledgments; List of Illustrations; Introduction: The American Phototext; Part I: The 1930s; 1. Portraiture as Place: From Pictorialism to Modernism: Doris Ulman and Julia Peterkin's Roll, Jordan, Roll (1933); 2. Articulating the Depression: Two Contesting Visions: Dorothea Lange and Paul Taylor's American Exodus (1939) and Margaret Bourke White and Erskine Caldwell's You Have Seen Their Faces (1937); 3. Establishing A photographic Vernacular: Walker Evans's American Photographs (1938); Part II: The 1940s; 4. 'A Book for All that': Modernism as Documentary Practice: James Agee and Walker Evans's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941); 5. The American Heartland: Interrogating a Post-War Pastoral: Wright Morris's The Inhabitants (1945) and The Home Place (1948); 6. 'Their First Murder': Hardboiled Captions and Flashgun Aesthetics: Weegee's Naked City (1945); Part III: The 1950s; 7. An American Alphabet: Writing Democracy in New England: Paul Strand and Nancy Newhall's Time In New England (1950); 8. Back at Home: Neighborhood and Community in the 1950s: Langston Hughes and Ray DeCarava's Sweet Flypaper of Life (1955); 8. 'On The Road': The Photographer as Outsider: Jack Kerouac's Introduction to Robert Frank's The Americans (1959); Conclusion; Index. Acknowledgments List of Illustrations Introduction: The American Phototext Part I: The 1930s 1. Portraiture as Place: From Pictorialism to ModernismDoris Ulman and Julia Peterkin's Roll, Jordan, Roll (1933) 2. Articulating the Depression: Two Contesting Visions Dorothea Lange and Paul Taylor's American Exodus (1939) and Margaret Bourke White and Erskine Caldwell's You Have Seen Their Faces (1937) 3. Establishing A photographic VernacularWalker Evans's American Photographs (1938) Part II: The 1940s 4. 'A Book for All that': Modernism as Documentary Practice James Agee and Walker Evans's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941) 5. The American Heartland: Interrogating a Post-War PastoralWright Morris's The Inhabitants (1945) and The Home Place (1948) 6. 'Their First Murder': Hardboiled Captions and Flashgun AestheticsWeegee's Naked City (1945) Part III: The 1950s 7. An American Alphabet: Writing Democracy in New England Paul Strand and Nancy Newhall's Time In New England (1950) 8. Back at Home: Neighborhood and Community in the 1950sLangston Hughes and Ray DeCarava's Sweet Flypaper of Life (1955) 9. 'On The Road': The Photographer as Outsider Jack Kerouac's Introduction to Robert Frank's The Americans (1959) Conclusion Index. … (more)
- Publisher Details:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press
- Publication Date:
- 2019
- Extent:
- 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
- Subjects:
- 770.973
Documentary photography -- United States -- History -- 20th century - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781474404112
9781474404136 - Related ISBNs:
- 9781474404105
9781474404129 - Notes:
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- Physical Locations:
- British Library HMNTS - ELD.DS.590623
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