Making Photography Matter - A Viewer's History from the Civil War to the Great Depression (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	University of Illinois Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	July 2017
Authors:	Cara A. Finnegan
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	256
ISBN-13:	978-0-252-08312-9
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Photography & photographs > General Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Media studies Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > Art styles not limited by date > General Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > History > American history > General Promotions
LSN:	0-252-08312-1
Barcode:	9780252083129

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