Picturing America

Photography and the Sense of Place
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-38546-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 26, 270 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 635 g

Reihe: Spatial Practices

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Schmidt, Kerstin

Faisst, Julia Isabel

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Fotografie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.