Picturing America: Photography and the Sense of Place

Picturing America: Photography and the Sense of Place......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
List of Figures......Page 8
Notes on Contributors......Page 12
Introduction: The Place of Photography......Page 14
1 From Sewers to Selfies: the Evolution of Photographs into Infrastructure......Page 25
2 Nowhere, Now Here: Lee Friedlander's Self Portrait and the National Ground......Page 45
3 Photography, Revision, and the City in Henry James's New York Edition and Alvin Langdon Coburn's London......Page 62
4 Gogol + Nikhil = Nikon? Power, Place, and Photography in Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake......Page 82
5 Relations to the Real: the Fugitive Documentary of Stan Douglas and James Casebere......Page 106
6 Waste Landscapes: Photographing the Course of Empire......Page 123
7 Wear Your Shelter: Climate Change Photography and Mary Mattingly's Nomadographies......Page 137
8 At Home: the Visual Culture of Privacy......Page 152
9 Pictorialism in the American West and Regionalism Writ-Large......Page 164
10 The Governing Eye: Heart Mountain through the Lens of War Relocation Authority and Bureau of Reclamation Photographs......Page 179
11 Over Here, Over There, Down Below: American Photographers Confront the Great War......Page 200
12 Remapping the Geography of Class: Photography, Protest, and the Politics of Space in the 1968 Poor People's Campaign......Page 221
13 The Power of Place in Holocaust Postmemory Photography......Page 241
14 Non-places: Stone Quarries Near Eichstätt, Germany......Page 265
Index......Page 274