Picturing America
Photography and the Sense of Place
Published on 20. December 2018
Book
Hardback
282 pages
978-90-04-38546-7 (ISBN)
Description
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 photographs as prime sites of knowledge production and advocates of socio-political transformations, a transnational set of scholars reveals how images enact both our perception and conception of American environments. They investigate the power photography yields in shaping our ideas of self, nation, and empire, of private and public space, through urban, landscape, wasteland and portrait photography. The volume radically reconfigures how pictures alter the development of American places in the past, present, and future.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
635 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-38546-7 (9789004385467)
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Persons
Kerstin Schmidt Ph.D. (Freiburg 2005) and P.D. (Munich 2010), is Professor of English and Chair of American Studies at the Catholic University of Eichstaett-Ingolstadt, Germany.
Julia Faisst, Ph.D. (Harvard University 2009), is Assistant Professor of American Studies at the Catholic University of Eichstaett-Ingolstadt, Germany.
Julia Faisst, Ph.D. (Harvard University 2009), is Assistant Professor of American Studies at the Catholic University of Eichstaett-Ingolstadt, Germany.
Content
?List of Figures
?Introduction: Picturing America: Photography and the Sense of Place
?Kerstin Schmidt and Julia Faisst
1 From Sewers to Selfies: The Evolution of Photographs into Infrastructure
?Mitchell Schwarzer
2 Nowhere, Now Here: Lee Friedlander's Self Portrait and the National Ground
?Shamoon Zamir
3 Photography, Revision, and the City in Henry James's New York Edition and Alvin Langdon Coburn's London
?Emily Setina
4 Gogol + Nikhil = Nikon? Power, Place, and Photography in Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake
?Michael Wutz
5 Relations to the Real: The Fugitive Documentary of Stan Douglas and James Casebere
?Kerstin Schmidt
6 Waste Landscapes: Photographing the Course of Empire
?Miles Orvell
7 Wear Your Shelter: Climate Change Photography and Mary Mattingly's Nomadographies
?Julia Faisst
8 At Home: The Visual Culture of Privacy
?Joseph Imorde
9 Pictorialism in the American West and Regionalism Writ-Large
?Rachel McLean Sailor
10 The Governing Eye: Heart Mountain through the Lens of War Relocation Authority and Bureau of Reclamation Photographs
?Eric J. Sandeen
11 Over Here, Over There, Down Below: American Photographers Confront the Great War
?David M. Lubin
12 Remapping the Geography of Class: Photography, Protest, and the Politics of Space in the 1968 Poor People's Campaign
?Katharina Fackler
13 The Power of Place in Holocaust Postmemory Photography
?Bettina Lockemann
14 Non-Places: Stone Quarries Near Eichstaett
?Hubert P. Klotzeck
?Index
?Introduction: Picturing America: Photography and the Sense of Place
?Kerstin Schmidt and Julia Faisst
1 From Sewers to Selfies: The Evolution of Photographs into Infrastructure
?Mitchell Schwarzer
2 Nowhere, Now Here: Lee Friedlander's Self Portrait and the National Ground
?Shamoon Zamir
3 Photography, Revision, and the City in Henry James's New York Edition and Alvin Langdon Coburn's London
?Emily Setina
4 Gogol + Nikhil = Nikon? Power, Place, and Photography in Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake
?Michael Wutz
5 Relations to the Real: The Fugitive Documentary of Stan Douglas and James Casebere
?Kerstin Schmidt
6 Waste Landscapes: Photographing the Course of Empire
?Miles Orvell
7 Wear Your Shelter: Climate Change Photography and Mary Mattingly's Nomadographies
?Julia Faisst
8 At Home: The Visual Culture of Privacy
?Joseph Imorde
9 Pictorialism in the American West and Regionalism Writ-Large
?Rachel McLean Sailor
10 The Governing Eye: Heart Mountain through the Lens of War Relocation Authority and Bureau of Reclamation Photographs
?Eric J. Sandeen
11 Over Here, Over There, Down Below: American Photographers Confront the Great War
?David M. Lubin
12 Remapping the Geography of Class: Photography, Protest, and the Politics of Space in the 1968 Poor People's Campaign
?Katharina Fackler
13 The Power of Place in Holocaust Postmemory Photography
?Bettina Lockemann
14 Non-Places: Stone Quarries Near Eichstaett
?Hubert P. Klotzeck
?Index