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Looking Backward: A Photographic Portrait of the World at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century
Michael Lesy
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Description for Looking Backward: A Photographic Portrait of the World at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century
Hardcover. Haunting views of the early twentieth century's most significant events flank pictures of the last remnants of the premodern world. Num Pages: 256 pages, 233 duotone photographs. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; AC; AJG; HBLL; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 241. .
At the turn of the twentieth century, the stereograph was king. Its binocular images revealed the world in vivid, three-dimensional detail. Drawing on an enormous, rarely seen collection of stereographic views, Michael Lesy presents images displaying a riot of peoples and cultures, stark class divisions and unsettling glimpses of daily life a century ago. Lesy's evocative essays reassert the primacy of the stereograph in American visual history. In underscoring the unnerving parallels between that period and our own, Looking Backward reveals a history that shadows us today.
At the turn of the twentieth century, the stereograph was king. Its binocular images revealed the world in vivid, three-dimensional detail. Drawing on an enormous, rarely seen collection of stereographic views, Michael Lesy presents images displaying a riot of peoples and cultures, stark class divisions and unsettling glimpses of daily life a century ago. Lesy's evocative essays reassert the primacy of the stereograph in American visual history. In underscoring the unnerving parallels between that period and our own, Looking Backward reveals a history that shadows us today.
Product Details
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393239737
SKU
V9780393239737
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About Michael Lesy
Michael Lesy is one of America's leading photographic scholars. His books include Wisconsin Death Trip, Murder City, Angel's World, and Long Time Coming. He lives in Amherst, Massachusetts, where he teaches literary journalism at Hampshire College.
Reviews for Looking Backward: A Photographic Portrait of the World at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century
The author is one of America's leading photographic historians and so a collection of images selected by him is going to appeal to the professional eye as well as the more casual enquiring reader... A fascinating collection, annotated in great detail, and certainly food for thought and meditation.
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