How the Other Half Looks - The Lower East Side and the Afterlives of Images

About the author

Sara Blair is the Patricia S. Yaeger Collegiate Professor of English and a faculty associate in the Department of American Culture and the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. Her books include Harlem Crossroads: Black Writers and the Photograph in the Twentieth Century (Princeton) and Trauma and Documentary Photography of the FSA.

Summary

How New York's Lower East Side inspired new ways of seeing AmericaNew York City's Lower East Side, long viewed as the space of what Jacob Riis notoriously called the "other half," was also a crucible for experimentation in photography, film, literature, and visual technologies. This book takes an unprecedented look at the practices of observati

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"[An] excellent, highly original study…[How the Other Half Looks] also may be appreciated for its potential to stimulate scholars to probe how the immigrant and 'Jewish' quarters of cities may be approached as extraordinarily fertile sites for cultural history."---Michael Berkowitz, American Literary History

Product details

• Authors: Sara Blair, Blair Sara
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2018
• EAN: 9780691172224
• ISBN: 978-0-691-17222-4
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; New York, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, LITERARY CRITICISM / Jewish, ART / Film & Video, ART / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / Regional, Literature: history & criticism, History of the Americas, Literature: history and criticism, PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Regional, New York (state)