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The Historian's Eye - Photography, History, and the American Present (Hardcover)
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The Historian's Eye - Photography, History, and the American Present (Hardcover)
Series: Documentary Arts and Culture, Published in association with the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
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Between 2009 and 2013, as the nation contemplated the historic
election of Barack Obama and endured the effects of the Great
Recession, Matthew Frye Jacobson set out with a camera to explore
and document what was discernible to the ""historian's eye"" during
this tumultuous period. Having collected several thousand images,
Jacobson began to reflect on their raw, informal immediacy
alongside the recognition that they comprised an archive of a
moment with unquestionable historical significance. This book
presents 100 images alongside Jacobson's recollections of their
moments of creation and his understanding of how they link past,
present, and future. The images reveal diverse expressions of civic
engagement that are emblematic of the aspirations, expectations,
promises, and failures of this period in American history. Myriad
closed businesses and abandoned storefronts stand as public
monuments to widespread distress; omnipresent, expectant Obama
iconography articulates a wish for new national narratives;
flamboyant street theater and wry signage bespeak a common impulse
to talk back to power. Framed by an introductory essay, these
images reflect the sober grace of a time that seems perilous, but
in which ""hope"" has not ceased to hold meaning.
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