Alan Trachtenberg, Author . Hill & Wang $27 (400p) ISBN 978-0-374-29975-0
What does it mean to be an American? How was "Americanness" first conceived? In this fascinating study, Trachtenberg (Reading American Photographs
) investigates the construction of the "American" by linking the experience of Native...
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Alan Trachtenberg, Author . Hill & Wang $27 (378p) ISBN 978-0-8090-4297-5
One of America's leading cultural historians, Trachtenberg (Shades of Hiawatha
) has gathered together his essays from the last 40 years. Those who know Trachtenberg's work will recognize much that is familiar. The essay "Brooklyn Bridge
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Gilles Mora, Author, Alan Trachtenberg, Author, Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., With ABRAMS $85 (367p) ISBN 978-0-8109-3979-0
This lavish text-and-picture reconstruction of early-20th-century art photography icon Edward Weston and his work aligns him within the defining cultural dimension of the 1990s: human sensuality. ``Weston's forms are nothing if not sensually...
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