How the other half looks : the lower east side and the afterlives of images /

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New York City's Lower East Side, long viewed as the space of what Jacob Riis notoriously called the "other half," was also a crucible for experimentation in photography, film, literature, and visual technologies. This book takes an unprecedented look at the practices of observation th...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Blair, Sara (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2018]
Subjects:
HISTORY > Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
HISTORY > North America.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
ART > American > General.
Fotografie
Film.
Literatur
Lower East Side (New York, N.Y.) > History.
New York (State) > New York > Lower East Side.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; How the Other Half Looks: A Preview; Object Lesson: Halftone and the Other Half; 1. On Whose Watch?: Animation, Arrest, and the Subject of the Ghetto; 2. On Location: D.W. Griffith, Early Film, and the Lower East Side; 3. What Becomes an Icon?: Photography and the Poverty of Modernism; 4. Looking Back: Henry Roth, Ben Shahn, and the Interwar Ghetto; 5. Writers' Blocks: Allen Ginsberg, LeRoi Jones, and the Territory of the Image; 6. Remediating the Lower East Side: Dystopia and the Ends of Representation; Coda How We Look Now.

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