The American Photo-Text, 1930-1960 / / Caroline Blinder.
Focuses on the intersections between text and photography in the twentieth-century American photo-textThis 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 collaborat...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The American Photo-Text
- PART I: THE 1930s
- 1. Portraiture as Place in Julia Peterkin and Doris Ulmann’s Roll, Jordan, Roll (1933)
- 2. Articulating the Depression in 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 Vernacular in Walker Evans’s American Photographs (1938)
- PART II: THE 1940s
- 4. Modernism as Documentary Practice in James Agee and Walker Evans’s Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941)
- 5. A Post-War Pastoral in Wright Morris’s The Inhabitants (1946) and The Home Place (1948)
- 6. Hardboiled Captions and Flashgun Aesthetics in Weegee’s Naked City (1945)
- PART III: THE 1950s
- 7. Ideology, History and Democracy in Paul Strand and Nancy Newhall’s Time in New England (1950)
- 8. Visions of Harlem in Langston Hughes and Ray DeCarava’s The Sweet Flypaper of Life (1955)
- 9. Beat Poetics in The Americans (1959)
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index