| Picturing America: Photography and the Sense of Place Contributor(s): Schmidt, Kerstin, Faisst, Julia Isabel |
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ISBN: 9004385460 ISBN-13: 9789004385467 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $137.75 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Photography - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory |
| Series: Spatial Practices |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 6.3" W x 9.3" (1.40 lbs) 282 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |