The Historian's Eye (eBook)

Photography, History, and the American Present

Matthew Frye Jacobson (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2019
192 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-4967-2 (ISBN)

Infos

Between 2009 and 2013, as the nation contemplated the historic election of Barack Obama and endured the effects of the Great Recession, Matthew Frye Jacobson set out with a camera to explore and document what was discernible to the "historian's eye" during this tumultuous period. Having collected several thousand images, Jacobson began to reflect on their raw, informal immediacy alongside the recognition that they comprised an archive of a moment with unquestionable historical significance. This book presents more than 100 images alongside Jacobson's recollections of their moments of creation and his understanding of how they link past, present, and future.The images reveal diverse expressions of civic engagement that are emblematic of the aspirations, expectations, promises, and failures of this period in American history. Myriad closed businesses and abandoned storefronts stand as public monuments to widespread distress; omnipresent, expectant Obama iconography articulates a wish for new national narratives; flamboyant street theater and wry signage bespeak a common impulse to talk back to power. Framed by an introductory essay, these images reflect the sober grace of a time that seems perilous, but in which "hope" has not ceased to hold meaning.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 26.3.2019
• Reihe/Serie: Documentary Arts and Culture, Published in association with the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
• Zusatzinfo: 122 halftones
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 180 x 180 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Schlagworte: Anti-Obama Backlash • contemporary America • deindustrialization • documentary photography • Great ecession of 2008 • Historical Pedagogy • History of the Present • Immigration • Islamophobia in the United States • Neoliberalism • Obama Presidency • occupy wall street • Political Economy • Political Iconography • Political Polarization • Race in the United States • Racism • Trumpism • Unemployment • US politics • whiteness
• ISBN-10: 1-4696-4967-5 / 1469649675
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-4967-2 / 9781469649672