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Making Photography Matter: A Viewer's History from the Civil War to the Great Depression - Couverture rigide

Finnegan, Cara A.

 
9780252039263: Making Photography Matter: A Viewer's History from the Civil War to the Great Depression
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ISBN 10 : 0252039262 ISBN 13 : 9780252039263
Editeur : University of Illinois Press, 2015

Synopsis

Photography became a dominant medium in cultural life starting in the late nineteenth century. As it happened, viewers increasingly used their reactions to photographs to comment on and debate public issues as vital as war, national identity, and citizenship.

Cara A. Finnegan analyzes a wealth of newspaper and magazine articles, letters to the editor, trial testimony, books, and speeches produced by viewers in response to specific photos they encountered in public. From the portrait of a young Lincoln to images of child laborers and Depression-era hardship, Finnegan treats the photograph as a locus for viewer engagement and constructs a history of photography's viewers that shows how Americans used words about images to participate in the politics of their day. As she shows, encounters with photography helped viewers negotiate the emergent anxieties and crises of U.S. public life through not only persuasion but action, as well.

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À propos de l'auteur

Cara A. Finnegan is an associate professor of communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of Picturing Poverty: Print Culture and FSA Photographs.

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Éditeur
University of Illinois Press
Date d'édition
2015
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0252039262
ISBN 13 
9780252039263
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
256
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