Picturing America : : Photography and the Sense of Place /

Picturing America : : Photography and the Sense of Place / / Kerstin Schmidt, Julia Isabel Faisst.

Picturing America: Photography and the Sense of Place argues that photography is a prevalent practice of making American places. Its collected essays epitomize not only how pictures situate us in a specific place, but also how they create a sense of such mutable place-worlds. Understanding photograp...

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Schmidt, Kerstin,
Faisst, Julia Isabel,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden, , Boston : : Brill | Rodopi,, 2019.
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Spatial Practices 26.
Physical Description:1 online resource (269 pages).
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright Page
  • Introduction: The Place of Photography / Kerstin Schmidt and Julia Faisst
  • From Sewers to Selfies: the Evolution of Photographs into Infrastructure / Mitchell Schwarzer
  • Nowhere, Now Here: Lee Friedlander’s Self Portrait and the National Ground / Shamoon Zamir
  • Photography, Revision, and the City in Henry James’s New York Edition and Alvin Langdon Coburn’s London / Emily Setina
  • Gogol + Nikhil = Nikon? Power, Place, and Photography in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake / Michael Wutz
  • Relations to the Real: the Fugitive Documentary of Stan Douglas and James Casebere / Kerstin Schmidt
  • Waste Landscapes: Photographing the Course of Empire / Miles Orvell
  • Wear Your Shelter: Climate Change Photography and Mary Mattingly’s Nomadographies / Julia Faisst
  • At Home: the Visual Culture of Privacy / Joseph Imorde
  • Pictorialism in the American West and Regionalism Writ-Large / Rachel McLean Sailor
  • The Governing Eye: Heart Mountain through the Lens of War Relocation Authority and Bureau of Reclamation Photographs / Eric J. Sandeen
  • Over Here, Over There, Down Below: American Photographers Confront the Great War / David M. Lubin
  • Remapping the Geography of Class: Photography, Protest, and the Politics of Space in the 1968 Poor People’s Campaign / Katharina Fackler
  • The Power of Place in Holocaust Postmemory Photography / Bettina Lockemann
  • Non-Places: Stone Quarries Near Eichstätt, Germany / Hubert P. Klotzeck
  • Back Matter
  • Index.

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