Reading American Photographs

Images as History-Mathew Brady to Walker Evans

Alan Trachtenberg (Yale University)

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English

Hill & Wang
23 August 1989

Photography & photographs; History

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photographs, presenting them not as static images but rather as rich cultural texts suffused with meaning and historical content.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.

By: Alan Trachtenberg (Yale University)
Imprint: Hill & Wang
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 243mm, Width: 163mm, Spine: 29mm
Weight: 739g
ISBN: 9780809080373
ISBN 10: 0809080370
Pages: 326
Publication Date: 23 August 1989
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Alan Trachtenberg, Neil Gray, Jr., Professor of English and American Studies at Yale University, is the author of The Incorporation of America: Culture ans Society in the Gilded Age.

Reviews for Reading American Photographs: Images as History-Mathew Brady to Walker Evans

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