Focuses on the intersections between text and photography in the twentieth-century American photo-text Ranging from documentary studies in the 1930s to post-war examinations of the American landscape, urban and rural, from Dorothea Lange's photographs of dispossessed migrants in American Exodus (1939), Weegee's small-time hoodlums on the streets of New York in Naked City (1945), to Robert Frank's Cold War citizens, this survey of the photo-text constitutes an invaluable entry into how we read the politics of twentieth-century American photography. In looking specifically at books designed as…mehr
Focuses on the intersections between text and photography in the twentieth-century American photo-text Ranging from documentary studies in the 1930s to post-war examinations of the American landscape, urban and rural, from Dorothea Lange's photographs of dispossessed migrants in American Exodus (1939), Weegee's small-time hoodlums on the streets of New York in Naked City (1945), to Robert Frank's Cold War citizens, this survey of the photo-text constitutes an invaluable entry into how we read the politics of twentieth-century American photography. In looking specifically at books designed as collaborative efforts, it establishes the photo-text as a genre related to and yet distinct from other documentary efforts. Key Features: - Explores through a series of case studies some of the seminal photo-texts of the 1930s, 40s and 50s from documentary realism of the Depression years to post-war studies of the American landscape. - Examines photo-texts by Doris Ulmann, Walker Evans, James Agee, Dorothea Lange, Margaret Bourke White, Wright Morris, Paul Strand, Roy DeCarava and Robert Frank. - Enables students and scholars of both American photography and literature to rethink the intersections between writing and photography in political as well as aesthetic terms. Caroline Blinder is Reader in American Literature and Culture at Goldsmiths, University of London.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Caroline Blinder is Lecturer in English and American Literature at Goldsmiths, University of London. Blinder has written extensively on the intersections between photography and text, starting with Henry Miller's work on Brassaï in her first book, A Self-Made Surrealist: Henry Miller (1999) and since then in book chapters and articles on amongst others, Walker Evans, Paul Strand, Weegee, Robert Frank, and recently Richard Misrach. She teaches American Literature, Film, and Culture at Goldsmiths University. London.
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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) 9. '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 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) 9. 'On The Road': The Photographer as Outsider Jack Kerouac's Introduction to Robert Frank's The Americans (1959) Conclusion Index
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