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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Blinder, Caroline, 1967- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2019]
Colección:BAAS paperbacks.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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)