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The American photo-text, 1930-1960 /
"This critical study of the American photo-text focuses on the interaction between text and images in twentieth-century American photography as well as the discourse surrounding image-text collaboration on a wider level. In looking at books designed as collaborative efforts between writers and...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2019]
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| Series: | BAAS paperbacks.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Portraiture as place in Julia Peterkin and Doris Ulmann's Roll, Jordan, roll (1933)
- 2. Articulating the Depression in 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 in Walker Evans's American photographs (1938)
- 4. Modernism as documentary practice in James Agee and Walker Evans's Let us now praise famous men (1941)
- 5. A post-war pastoral in Wright Morris's The inhabitants (1946) and The home place (1948)
- 6. Hardboiled captions and flashgun aesthetics in Weegee's Naked city (1945)
- 7. Ideology, history and democracy in in Paul Strand and Nancy Newhall's Time in New England (1950)
- 8. Visions of Harlem in Langston Hughes and Ray DeCarava's The sweet flypaper of life (1955)
- 9. Beat poetics in The Americans (1959)