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Making Photography Matter - A Viewer's History from the Civil War to the Great Depression (Hardcover)
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Making Photography Matter - A Viewer's History from the Civil War to the Great Depression (Hardcover)
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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 analyzes a wealth of newspaper and magazine articles,
letters to the editor, trial testimony, books, and speeches
produced by viewers in response to specific photos they encountered
in public. From the portrait of a young Lincoln to images of child
laborers and Depression-era hardship, Finnegan treats the
photograph as a locus for viewer engagement and constructs a
history of photography's viewers that shows how Americans used
words about images to participate in the politics of their day. As
she shows, encounters with photography helped viewers negotiate the
emergent anxieties and crises of U.S. public life through not only
persuasion but action, as well.
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