An edition of Reading American photographs (1989)
Reading American Photographs
Images As History, Mathew Brady to Walker Evans
By Alan Trachtenberg
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Publish Date
November 1, 1990
Publisher
Hill and Wang
Language
eng
Pages
326
Description:
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.