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edited by Ardis CameronPublication Details
BookBlackwell2005Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) E169.1 .L8194 2005 AVAILABLE New Feature: Text this to your cellphone
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Includes editorial introductions, suggested readings, a primer on how to “read” an image, and a guide to visual archives and collections Well-illustrated book for those in American Studies and related fields eager to incorporate the visual into their teaching?and telling?of the American story. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
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Contents
- Sleuthing towards America : visual detection in everyday life / Ardis Cameron
- Cartes de visite portrait photographs and the culture of class formation / Andrea L. Volpe
- Photographing the "American negro" : nation, race, and photography at the Paris Exposition of 1900 / Shawn Michelle Smith
- Techniques of the imaginary nation : engendering family photography / Laura Wexler
- Private eyes, public women : images of class and sex in the urban South, Atlanta, Georgia, 1913-1915 / Jacquelyn Dowd Hall - - Margaret Bourke-White’s red coat ; or, Slumming in the thirties / Paula Rabinowitz
- "The kind of people who make good Americans" : nationalism and life’s family ideal / Wendy Kozol
- Visual culture and working-class community : photography and the organizing of the steelworkers’ union in Chicago / Larry Peterson
- Sit- coms and suburbs : positioning the 1950s homemaker / Mary Beth Haralovich
- The zoot-suit and style warfare / Stuart Cosgrove
- Looking Jewish, seeing Jews / Matthew Frye Jacobson
- The photograph as an intersection of gazes / Catherine A. Lutz and Jane L. Collins
- When strangers bring cameras : the poetics and politics of othered places / Ardis Cameron
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- 1405114665
- 1405114657
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