Looking for America: The Visual Production of Nation and People is a groundbreaking collection that explores the “visual” in defining the kaleidoscope of American experience and American identity in the 20th century.
- Covers enduringly important topics in American history: nationhood, class, politics of identity, and the visual mapping of “others”
- Includes editorial introductions, suggested readings, a primer on how to read an image, and a guide to visual archives and collections
- Well-illustrated book for those in American Studies and related fields eager to incorporate the visual into their teaching—and telling—of the American story.
Acknowledgments.
Introduction (Ardis Cameron).
Suggested Readings.
PART I: 1860-1900.
Modern Types.
1. Sleuthing Towards America: Visual Detection in Everyday Life (Ardis Cameron).
2. Cartes de Visite Portrait Photographs and the Culture of Class Formation (Andrea L. Volpe).
Suggested Readings.
PART II: 1900-1940.
The Embodied Nation: Race, Gender, and the Politics of the Camera.
3. Photographing the American Negro : Nation, Race, and Photography at the Paris Exposition of 1900 (Shawn Michelle Smith).
4. Techniques of the Imaginary Nation: Engendering Family Photography (Laura Wexler).
The Eye of Power : Cross-Class Looking.
5. Private Eyes, Public Women: Images of Class and Sex in the Urban South, Atlanta, Georgia, 1913-1915 (Jacquelyn Dowd Hall).
6. Margaret Bourke-White’s Red Coat; or, Slumming in the Thirties (Paula Rabinowitz).
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