Reading American photographs : images as history, Mathew Brady to Walker Evans / Alan Trachtenberg.

1st ed.

[New York, N.Y.] : Hill and Wang, 1989.

xxi, 326 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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.

English

August 19, 2019

Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-314).