Finnegan Cara A. Finnegan

Photographic Presidents (eBook, ePUB)

Making History from Daguerreotype to Digital

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Defining the Chief Executive via flash powder and selfie sticksLincoln s somber portraits. Lyndon Johnson s swearing in. George W. Bush s reaction to learning about the 9/11 attacks. Photography plays an indelible role in how we remember and define American presidents. Throughout history, presidents have actively participated in all aspects of photography, not only by sitting for photos but by taking and consuming them. Cara A. Finnegan ventures from a newly-discovered daguerreotype of John Quincy Adams to Barack Obama s selfies to tell the stories of how presidents have participated in the medium s transformative moments. As she shows, technological developments not only changed photography, but introduced new visual values that influence how we judge an image. At the same time, presidential photographs as representations of leaders who symbolized the nation sparked public debate on these values and their implications. An original journey through political history, Photographic Presidents reveals the intertwined evolution of an American institution and a medium that continues to define it.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Illinois Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780252052699
• Artikelnr.: 72473293

Autorenporträt

Cara A. Finnegan

Inhaltsangabe

Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I. The Daguerreotype Presidents
1. Photographing George Washington
2. Early Daguerreotypes in the U.S. and the Nation's Capital
3. John Quincy Adams and National Portraiture
Part II. The Snapshot President
4. Handheld Photography and the Halftone Revolution
5. William McKinley's Last Photographs
Part III. The Candid Camera Presidents
6. Visual News in the Early Twentieth Century
7. Herbert Hoover, Franklin Roosevelt, and the Candid Camera
Part IV. The Social Media President
8. Changing Visual Media from the Mid-Twentieth Century to the Digital Age
9. Barack Obama and Flickr
Conclusion: The Portrait Makes Our President
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
Back cover