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Picturing America : photography and the sense of place /

Picturing America: Photography and the Sense of Place argues that photography is a prevalent practice of making American places. Its collected essays epitomize not only how pictures situate us in a specific place, but also how they create a sense of such mutable place-worlds. Understanding photograp...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Schmidt, Kerstin, 1971- (Editor ), Faisst, Julia (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill Rodopi, [2019]
Colección:Spatial practices ; 26.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Picturing America: Photography and the Sense of Place argues that photography is a prevalent practice of making American places. Its collected essays epitomize not only how pictures situate us in a specific place, but also how they create a sense of such mutable place-worlds. Understanding photographs as prime sites of knowledge production and advocates of socio-political transformations, a transnational set of scholars reveals how images enact both our perception and conception of American environments. They investigate the power photography yields in shaping our ideas of self, nation, and empire, of private and public space, through urban, landscape, wasteland and portrait photography. The volume radically reconfigures how pictures alter the development of American places in the past, present, and future.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xii, 269 pages) : illustrations (some color), portraits
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9789004385474
9004385479
ISSN:1871-689X ;