Title: Reading American photographs
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.
Subjects: Artistic, Photography, Photography in historiography, Documentary photography, History, Pictorial works, Artistic Photography, Brady, mathew b., 1823-1896, Evans, walker, 1903-1975, Social aspects, Social conditions
Places: United States