Trauma and Documentary Photography of the Fsa

Zusatztext "Farm Security Administration work from the 1930s! so often viewed in political and socioeconomic terms! is here reconsidered in light of new theories on how personal and collective trauma may have affected photographers." Informationen zum Autor Sara Blair is Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan and author of Henry James and the Writing of Race and Nation (Cambridge! 2009). Eric Rosenberg is Associate Professor of Art and Art History at Tufts University and author of Trauma and Visuality in Modernity (Dartmouth! 2006). Klappentext "Well conceived and boldly realized! these essays provide sophisticated! daring interpretive inquiries into a pivotal moment in the history of photography."-Blake Stimson! author of The Pivot of the World: Photography and its Nation "With these innovative essays! Blair and Rosenberg challenge our understanding of both the documentary impulse and the time when it was defined and canonized."-Deborah Martin Kao! Richard L. Menschel Curator of Photography! Harvard University Art Museums Zusammenfassung Proposes that we reconsider the work of the Farm Security Administration and its most beloved photographers in light of various forms of trauma in the 1930s. This title offers ways to understand this body of work by exploring a more variable idea of documentary photography than what the New Dealers proposed. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Anthony W. Lee Against Trauma: Documentary and Modern Times on the Lower East Side Sara Blair With Trauma: Walker Evans and the Failure to Document Eric Rosenberg Notes Index

Product details

• Authors: Sara Blair, Sara Rosenberg Blair, Blair Sara, Blair/Rosenberg, Eric Rosenberg, Rosenberg Eric
• Assisted by: Sara Blair (Editor), Anthony W. Lee (Editor), Eric Rosenberg (Editor), Anthony W. Lee (Introduction), Lee Anthony W. (Introduction)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.05.2012
• EAN: 9780520265660
• ISBN: 978-0-520-26566-0
• No. of pages: 121
• Series: Defining Moments in American Photography; Defining Moments in American P; Defining Moments in American Photography; Defining Moments in Photography
• Subjects: Guides > Hobby, home > Photography, filmmaking, video filmmaking; Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; USA, PHOTOGRAPHY / Photojournalism, United States of America, USA, Photographic reportage, Photojournalism and documentary photography