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Silver Cities: The Photography of American Urbanization, 1839-1915
Peter Bacon Hales
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Hardback. Num Pages: 506 pages, 243 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; AJ. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 260 x 205 x 33. Weight in Grams: 1637.
First published in 1984, 'Silver Cities' rapidly became a classic in the history of photography and in the then-nascent field of visual culture studies. Now this vastly expanded edition presents a lively interdisciplinary history of the first century of urban photography in America. 'Silver Cities' envisions the transformation of American civilisation via mass-produced and mass-disseminated photography of cities made between 1839 and the onset of World War II. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, urban photographers were visual explorers of the rapidly evolving urban sphere, but their understanding of that environment was defined by the prevailing cultural prejudices. To ... Read more
First published in 1984, 'Silver Cities' rapidly became a classic in the history of photography and in the then-nascent field of visual culture studies. Now this vastly expanded edition presents a lively interdisciplinary history of the first century of urban photography in America. 'Silver Cities' envisions the transformation of American civilisation via mass-produced and mass-disseminated photography of cities made between 1839 and the onset of World War II. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, urban photographers were visual explorers of the rapidly evolving urban sphere, but their understanding of that environment was defined by the prevailing cultural prejudices. To ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Weight
1647g
Number of Pages
506
Place of Publication
Albuquerque, NM, United States
ISBN
9780826331786
SKU
V9780826331786
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