The American Photo-Text, 1930-1960

ISBN-13: 9781474404105 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 264 str.

Caroline Blinder

Opis

An Introduction focusing on the intersections between text and photography in the 20th Century American Photo-Text 1930-1960.

Spis treści

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.