Read more
Zusatztext "The author conveys a convincing and insightful sense of the extraordinary value of Hine's legacy. . . . Nemerov combines accurate! minute descriptions with passionate technical analyses! shedding new! meaningful light on Hine's work as an organic! unitary project of historical significance." ---Adriana Neagu! ABC Journal Informationen zum Autor Alexander Nemerov is the Carl and Marilynn Thoma Provostial Professor in the Arts and Humanities at Stanford University. His books include Silent Dialogues: Diane Arbus and Howard Nemerov, Wartime Kiss: Visions of the Moment in the 1940s (Princeton), and Acting in the Night: Macbeth and the Places of the Civil War. Klappentext "Quite clearly this is a book that knows its larger context, that seeks to step beyond Roland Barthes and take the discussion of documentary off to a different, and metaphysical level. In many ways Soulmaker is audacious; it is also brilliant, itself possessed of the fire that repeatedly flares on its pages." --Molly Nesbit, Vassar College "A beautiful book by one of the most attuned critics of our time, Soulmaker demonstrates a mystical and powerfully truthful capacity to see the special illuminations of Lewis Hine's work. Nemerov is not afraid to say that the capacity is mystical, so it becomes a challenge for the contemporary reader to be taught how to see a photograph's different sense of time and space, the eeriness and also the tender particularity of the moment it makes for its subject and for us." --Elisa Tamarkin, University of California, Berkeley Zusammenfassung Between 1908 and 1917, the American photographer and sociologist Lewis Hine (1874-1940) took some of the most memorable pictures of child workers ever made. Traveling around the United States while working for the National Child Labor Committee, he photographed children in textile mills, coal mines, and factories from Vermont and Massachusetts to G...
