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

Finnegan, Cara A.

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

Inhaltsangabe

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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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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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Verlag
University of Illinois Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2015
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0252039262
ISBN 13 
9780252039263
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
240
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