Making Photography Matter A Viewer's History from the Civil War to the Great Depression |
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| Author:
| Finnegan, Cara A. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-252-03926-3 |
| Publication Date: | May 2015 |
| Publisher: | University of Illinois Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $110.00 |
Book Description:
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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 analyses a wealth of newspaper and magazine articles, letters to the ......
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 analyses a wealth of newspaper and magazine articles, letters to the ......