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Book SynopsisPicturing America: Photography and the Sense of Place argues that photography is a prevalent practice of making American places. Its collected essays epitomize not only how pictures situate us in a specific place, but also how they create a sense of such mutable place-worlds. Understanding photographs as prime sites of knowledge production and advocates of socio-political transformations, a transnational set of scholars reveals how images enact both our perception and conception of American environments. They investigate the power photography yields in shaping our ideas of self, nation, and empire, of private and public space, through urban, landscape, wasteland and portrait photography. The volume radically reconfigures how pictures alter the development of American places in the past, present, and future.
Table of Contents List of Figures Introduction: Picturing America: Photography and the Sense of Place Kerstin Schmidt and Julia Faisst 1 From Sewers to Selfies: The Evolution of Photographs into Infrastructure Mitchell Schwarzer 2 Nowhere, Now Here: Lee Friedlander’s Self Portrait and the National Ground Shamoon Zamir 3 Photography, Revision, and the City in Henry James’s New York Edition and Alvin Langdon Coburn’s London Emily Setina 4 Gogol + Nikhil = Nikon? Power, Place, and Photography in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake Michael Wutz 5 Relations to the Real: The Fugitive Documentary of Stan Douglas and James Casebere Kerstin Schmidt 6 Waste Landscapes: Photographing the Course of Empire Miles Orvell 7 Wear Your Shelter: Climate Change Photography and Mary Mattingly’s Nomadographies Julia Faisst 8 At Home: The Visual Culture of Privacy Joseph Imorde 9 Pictorialism in the American West and Regionalism Writ-Large Rachel McLean Sailor 10 The Governing Eye: Heart Mountain through the Lens of War Relocation Authority and Bureau of Reclamation Photographs Eric J. Sandeen 11 Over Here, Over There, Down Below: American Photographers Confront the Great War David M. Lubin 12 Remapping the Geography of Class: Photography, Protest, and the Politics of Space in the 1968 Poor People’s Campaign Katharina Fackler 13 The Power of Place in Holocaust Postmemory Photography Bettina Lockemann 14 Non-Places: Stone Quarries Near Eichstaett Hubert P. Klotzeck Index
