Classic Essays on Photography: Trachtenberg, Alan.
Classic Essays on Photography, ed. Alan Trachtenberg, New Haven, Conn.: Leete’s Island Books, Inc., 1951: Abbott’s essay written for a photo magazine detailing her views on both photography as art and documentary photography.
Fourteen of Walker Evans's evocative photographs of Brooklyn Bridge, most of which have never been published, appear in this edition of Alan Trachenberg's Brooklyn Bridge: Fact and Symbol. In the new afterword Trachenberg explores the history of Hart Crane's The Bridge, especially the poem's integral relationship with the powerful photography of Evans. (Brooklyn Bridge) is familiar in so many.
Despite the complexity that is inherent in reading photographs, there are photos that are widely understood in the same way, they seem to be part of our common memory. The picture of Kim Phuc, and the famous portrait of Che Guevara, for example, have become symbols, icons — they express, it seems, universal feelings because they touch a nerve that may exist in all of us. Burgin argues that.
Trachtenberg notes that Poe delighted in the “magical accuracy of the photographic image” (Alan Trachtenberg, ed., Classic Essays on Photography (New Haven: Leete’s Island Books, 1980), 37). 18.
Trachtenberg, Alan (1982), The Incorporation of America: Culture and Society in the Gilded Age, New York, Hill and Wang. Trachtenberg, Alan (presenter) (1985), Themes in British and American History, 1760-1970: The Photographer as Witness, Milton Keynes, Open University.
Trachtenberg, Alan, ed. Classic Essays on Photography. New Ha ven, Conn.: Leete's Island Books, 1980. From Niepce, Daguerre, and Talbot to Kracauer, Barthes, and Berger, Trachtenberg selects 31 essays that reflect chang ing attitudes towards photography Bolton, Richard, ed. The Contest of Meaning: Critical Histories of Photography. Cambridge.
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