Reading American photographs
Subtitle: images as history : Mathew Brady to Walker Evans
By: Alan Trachtenberg.
Publisher: Hill and Wang
Published: 1989
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 326
Subjects: Photography, Documentary  -- United States.; Photography  -- Artistic.; United States  -- History  -- Pictorial works.
Description: Considers five documentary sequences or narratives: the antebellum portraits of Mathew Brady and others; the Civil War albums of Alexander Gardner, George Barnard and A.J. Russell; the Western survey and landscape photographs of Timothy O'Sullivan, A.J. Russell, and Carleton Watkins; and social photographs and texts by Alfred Stieglitz and Lewis Hine; as well as documentaries inspired by the Depression, esp. Walker Evans's American Photographs.
Notes: Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references.