Looking Backward
A Photographic Portrait of the World at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century
Seiten
2017
WW Norton & Co (Verlag)
9780393239737 (ISBN)
WW Norton & Co (Verlag)
9780393239737 (ISBN)
Haunting views of the early twentieth century’s most significant
events flank pictures of the last remnants of the premodern world.
At the turn of the twentieth century, the stereograph was king. Its binocular images revealed the world in vivid, three-dimensional detail. Drawing on an enormous, rarely seen collection of stereographic views, Michael Lesy presents images displaying a riot of peoples and cultures, stark class divisions and unsettling glimpses of daily life a century ago.
Lesy’s evocative essays reassert the primacy of the stereograph in American visual history. In underscoring the unnerving parallels between that period and our own, Looking Backward reveals a history that shadows us today.
events flank pictures of the last remnants of the premodern world.
At the turn of the twentieth century, the stereograph was king. Its binocular images revealed the world in vivid, three-dimensional detail. Drawing on an enormous, rarely seen collection of stereographic views, Michael Lesy presents images displaying a riot of peoples and cultures, stark class divisions and unsettling glimpses of daily life a century ago.
Lesy’s evocative essays reassert the primacy of the stereograph in American visual history. In underscoring the unnerving parallels between that period and our own, Looking Backward reveals a history that shadows us today.
Michael Lesy is one of America’s leading photographic scholars. His books include Wisconsin Death Trip, Murder City, Angel’s World, and Long Time Coming. He lives in Amherst, Massachusetts, where he teaches literary journalism at Hampshire College.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 25.05.2017 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 233 duotone photographs |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 254 x 264 mm |
| Gewicht | 1564 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Fotokunst |
| Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile | |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) | |
| ISBN-13 | 9780393239737 / 9780393239737 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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