This book presents fifteen case histories-- photographic series accompanied by texts summarizing information about the photographers, their work in the field, and their assignments and subjects
Alan Trachtenberg Libri
Questo autore esplora la cultura americana attraverso la critica letteraria. Il suo lavoro si concentra sulla storia visiva e culturale, analizzando come immagini e testi modellano la nostra comprensione del passato. Attraverso questo approccio, rivela le intricate relazioni tra arte, media e società.





John Harvard Library: How the Other Half Lives
Studies Among the Tenements of New York
- 368pagine
- 13 ore di lettura
A work of photojournalism that deals with the New York City's slums in the 1880s. It includes the images of the squalid living conditions of 'the other half', who might well have inhabited another country.
Historical photographs collected from the National Archives.
The Incorporation of America
- 262pagine
- 10 ore di lettura
A classic examination of the roots of corporate culture, newly revised and updated for the twenty first century Alan Trachtenberg presents a balanced analysis of the expansion of capitalist power in the last third of the nineteenth century and the cultural changes it brought in its wake. In America's westward expansion, labor unrest, newly powerful cities, and newly mechanized industries, the ideals and ideas by which Americans lived were reshaped, and American society became more structured, with an entrenched middle class and a powerful business elite. Here, in an updated edition which includes a new introduction and a revised bibliographical essay, is a brilliant, essential work on the origins of America's corporate culture and the formation of the American social fabric after the Civil War.
Classic Essays on Photography
- 300pagine
- 11 ore di lettura
Containing 30 essays that embody the history of photography, this collection includes contributions from Niepce, Daguerre, Fox, Talbot, Poe, Emerson, Hine, Stieglitz, and Weston, among others.