Women's Camera Work - Self/Body/Other in American Visual Culture

"Davidov is an eloquent and passionate reader of texts and images. . . . She gives us a chance to think about a set of relationships among major American women photographers that few people know about."--Iris Tillman Hill, Duke University

Info autore

Judith Fryer Davidov is Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She is the author of The Faces of Eve: Women in the Nineteenth-Century American Novel and Felicitous Space: The Imaginative Constructions of Edith Wharton and Willa Cather.

Riassunto

Explores how photographs have been and are used to construct versions of history. This book examines how photographic representations of otherness often tell stories about the self. It is suitable for students of American visual culture, and women's studies.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Davidov, Judith Fryer Davidov, Judith E. Fryerdavidov
• Editore: Duke University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 25.05.1998
• EAN: 9780822320548
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-2054-8
• Pagine: 512
• Peso: 1061 g
• Illustrazioni: 220 b&w photographs
• Serie: New Americanists; New Americanists
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Arte > Fotografia, cinematografia, video, TV; Fotografie: Porträts & Selbstporträts, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA