Product Description: This is the first full-length examination of Lewis H. Hine (1874-1940), the intellectual and aesthetic father of social documentary photography. Kate Sampsell-Willmann assesses Hine's output through the lens of his photographs, his political and philosophical ideologies, and his social and aesthetic commitments to the dignity of labor and workers...read more

Exploring a variety of cultural artifacts of American history, the author of Shades of Hiawatha presents a series of essays on such topics as the last photograph taken of Abraham Lincoln, the Brooklyn Bridge, the early works of Lewis Mumford, the photographs of Walker Evans and other artists, and the literary works of Howell, Whitman, Crane, and others.

Traces the history of corporations in the United States and looks at how incorporation has affected business, politics, culture, education, and society itself

The author of The Incorporation of America revisits the 'Gilded Age' in American history to demonstrate that the story of the Native American--even as Indians were suffering their worst defeats and humiliations--became a defining myth, along with the immigrant experience, to explain the process of Americanization.

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Product Description: A compassionate realist in the tradition of Stephen Crane and Theodore Dreiser, Lewis Hine had the rare gift of being able to transcend the assignments he received as a documentary photographer by investing the most topical subject with lasting human quality...read more

Photographs taken over a period of forty years depict America's vanishing and endangered places, from the wastelands of New Jersey to West Virginia factory towns and a Great Lakes steamer

Mike Disfarmer, an eccentric local recluse, photographed the residents of Heber Springs, Arkansas, in his studio on Main Street in the 1930s and 1940s. His glass-plate negatives were discovered fifteen years after his death. When she first saw an exhibit of Mike Disfarmer's portraits, Toba Tucker was intrigued by their raw honesty. Her curiosity drew her to Heber Springs, where she lived for two years, making portraits of some of the same people Disfarmer photographed and of many of their relatives and descendants who still live there. This unusual book is a rephotographic study. Toba Tucker used Disfarmer's portraits as the starting point for the project, but she brought her own personal vision to the images. She shows how life in small-town America has changed since the 1940s, and how it has remained the same. In his essay, Alan Trachtenberg examines the conversation between then and now, between Disfarmer and Tucker and observes that the strength, the individuality and vitality of the people in both sets of portraits make this book affecting and resonant.

Product Description: The catalogue for a traveling exhibition of photographic images of groups including work by Lewis Hine, Richard Prince, Diane Arbus, Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Robert Doisneau, Thomas Struth, Neal Slavin, William Klein, Nicholas Nixon, Weegee, and others...read more

Gathers photographs by Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Russell Lee and others, that everyday life in the U.S (view table of contents)

Product Description: Catalogue of an exhibition at Yale University Art Gallery, 10 November 1989 - 3 January 1990. Hardcover, 8.75 x 11 inches, 126 pages, illustrated, annotated.

Offers a broad perspective of major American photographers and their role in shaping and clarifying perceptions of past history from the Civil War to the Depression

Traces the history of corporations in the United States and looks at how incorporation has affected business, politics, culture, education, and society itself

Product Description: Containing 30 essays that embody the history of photography, this collection includes contributions from Niepce, Daguerre, Fox, Talbot, Poe, Emerson, Hine, Stieglitz, and Weston, among others.

Investigates the continuing impact of the Brooklyn Bridge upon the American imagination, exploring both its symbolic significance as reflected in the works of Hart Crane and others and its importance as an engineering accomplishment (view table of contents)