The American Photo-Text, 1930-1960
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
9781474404105 (ISBN)
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 photographers and by photographer/writers adding their own narrative text, it establishes the photo-text as a genre related to and yet distinct from other documentary efforts.
Ranging from documentary studies in the 1930s to post-war examinations of the American landscape, urban and rural, from Dorothea Lange’s photographs of dispossessed migrants in American Exodus (1939), Weegee’s small time hoodlums on the streets of New York in Naked City (1945), to Robert Frank’s Cold War landscapes, this survey constitutes an invaluable entry into how we read the politics of twentieth-century American photography.
Key Features
Explores through a series of case studies some of the seminal photo-texts of the 1930s, 40s and 50s from documentary realism of the Depression years to post-war studies of the American landscapeExamines photo-texts by Doris Ulmann, Walker Evans, James Agee, Dorothea Lange, Margaret Bourke White, Wright Morris, Paul Strand, Roy DeCarava and Robert FrankEnables students and scholars of both American photography and literature to rethink the intersections between writing and photography in political as well as aesthetic termsSituates the various case studies with reference to the political, social and economic developments of the period Re-establishes the book form as particularly crucial for an understanding of American Documentary photography
Caroline Blinder is Lecturer in English and American Literature at Goldsmiths, University of London. Blinder has written extensively on the intersections between photography and text, starting with Henry Miller’s work on Brassaï in her first book, A Self-Made Surrealist: Henry Miller (1999) and since then in book chapters and articles on amongst others, Walker Evans, Paul Strand, Weegee, Robert Frank, and recently Richard Misrach. She teaches American Literature, Film, and Culture at Goldsmiths University. London.
Acknowledgments List of Illustrations Introduction: The American Phototext
Part I: The 1930s
1. Portraiture as Place: From Pictorialism to ModernismDoris Ulman and Julia Peterkin’s Roll, Jordan, Roll (1933)
2. Articulating the Depression: Two Contesting Visions 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 VernacularWalker Evans’s American Photographs (1938)
Part II: The 1940s
4. ‘A Book for All that’: Modernism as Documentary Practice James Agee and Walker Evans’s Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941)
5. The American Heartland: Interrogating a Post-War PastoralWright Morris’s The Inhabitants (1945) and The Home Place (1948)
6. ‘Their First Murder’: Hardboiled Captions and Flashgun AestheticsWeegee’s Naked City (1945)
Part III: The 1950s
7. An American Alphabet: Writing Democracy in New England Paul Strand and Nancy Newhall’s Time In New England (1950)
8. Back at Home: Neighborhood and Community in the 1950sLangston Hughes and Ray DeCarava’s Sweet Flypaper of Life (1955)
9. ‘On The Road’: The Photographer as Outsider Jack Kerouac’s Introduction to Robert Frank’s The Americans (1959)
Conclusion Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 11.06.2017 |
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| Reihe/Serie | Critical Insights in American Studies |
| Zusatzinfo | 32 black and white illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 138 x 216 mm |
| Gewicht | 274 g |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
| ISBN-13 | 9781474404105 / 9781474404105 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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