Looking for America : the visual production of nation and people /
Cameron, Ardis.
Malden, MA, ; Oxford : Blackwell Publishing,
2005.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents: Sleuthing towards America : visual detection in everyday life / Ardis Cameron -- Cartes de visite portrait photographs and the culture of class formation / Andrea L. Volpe -- Photographing the "American negro" : nation, race, and photography at the Paris Exposition of 1900 / Shawn Michelle Smith -- Techniques of the imaginary nation : engendering family photography / Laura Wexler -- Private eyes, public women : images of class and sex in the urban South, Atlanta, Georgia, 1913-1915 / Jacquelyn Dowd Hall -- Margaret Bourke-White's red coat ; or, Slumming in the thirties / Paula Rabinowitz -- "The kind of people who make good Americans" : nationalism and life's family ideal / Wendy Kozol -- Visual culture and working-class community : photography and the organizing of the steelworkers' union in Chicago / Larry Peterson -- Sit-coms and suburbs : positioning the 1950s homemaker / Mary Beth Haralovich -- The zoot-suit and style warfare / Stuart Cosgrove -- Looking Jewish, seeing Jews / Matthew Frye Jacobson -- The photograph as an intersection of gazes / Catherine A. Lutz and Jane L. Collins -- When strangers bring cameras : the poetics and politics of othered places / Ardis Cameron
Visual communication
Arts and society
National characteristics, American.