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Picturing America: Photography and the Sense of Place argues that photography is a prevalent practice of making American places. Its collected essays epitomize not only how pictures situate us in a specific place, but also how they create a sense of such mutable place-worlds. Understanding photographs as prime sites of knowledge production and advocates of socio-political transformations, a transnational set of scholars reveals how images enact both our perception and conception of American environments. They investigate the power photography yields in shaping our ideas of self, nation, and empire, of private and public space, through urban, landscape, wasteland and portrait photography. The volume radically reconfigures how pictures alter the development of American places in the past, present, and future.

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Author:   Kerstin Schmidt ,  Julia Isabel Faisst
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   26
Weight:   0.573kg
ISBN:  

9789004385467

ISBN 10:   9004385460
Pages:   270
Publication Date:   20 December 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

 List of Figures  Introduction: Picturing America: Photography and the Sense of Place  Kerstin Schmidt and Julia Faisst 1 From Sewers to Selfies: The Evolution of Photographs into Infrastructure  Mitchell Schwarzer 2 Nowhere, Now Here: Lee Friedlander’s Self Portrait and the National Ground  Shamoon Zamir 3 Photography, Revision, and the City in Henry James’s New York Edition and Alvin Langdon Coburn’s London  Emily Setina 4 Gogol + Nikhil = Nikon? Power, Place, and Photography in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake  Michael Wutz 5 Relations to the Real: The Fugitive Documentary of Stan Douglas and James Casebere  Kerstin Schmidt 6 Waste Landscapes: Photographing the Course of Empire  Miles Orvell 7 Wear Your Shelter: Climate Change Photography and Mary Mattingly’s Nomadographies  Julia Faisst 8 At Home: The Visual Culture of Privacy  Joseph Imorde 9 Pictorialism in the American West and Regionalism Writ-Large  Rachel McLean Sailor 10 The Governing Eye: Heart Mountain through the Lens of War Relocation Authority and Bureau of Reclamation Photographs  Eric J. Sandeen 11 Over Here, Over There, Down Below: American Photographers Confront the Great War  David M. Lubin 12 Remapping the Geography of Class: Photography, Protest, and the Politics of Space in the 1968 Poor People’s Campaign  Katharina Fackler 13 The Power of Place in Holocaust Postmemory Photography  Bettina Lockemann 14 Non-Places: Stone Quarries Near Eichstaett  Hubert P. Klotzeck  Index

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Kerstin Schmidt Ph.D. (Freiburg 2005) and P.D. (Munich 2010), is Professor of English and Chair of American Studies at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Germany. Julia Faisst, Ph.D. (Harvard University 2009), is Assistant Professor of American Studies at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Germany.

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