Alan Trachtenberg

Containing 30 essays that embody the history of photography, this collection includes contributions from Niepce, Daguerre, Fox, Talbot, Poe, Emerson, Hine, Stieglitz, and Weston, among others.

Classic Essays on Photography

Analyzes the development of the U.S.'s modern socioeconomic structure in the late nineteenth century, discussing factors such as westward expansion, mechanization, labor unrest, and the growth of cities.

Culture and Society in the Gilded Age

The Incorporation of America

Considers five documentary sequences or narratives: the antebellum portraits of Mathew Brady and others; the Civil War albums of Alexander Gardner, George Barnard and A.J. Russell; the Western survey and landscape photographs of Timothy O'Sullivan, A.J. Russell, and Carleton Watkins; and social photographs and texts by Alfred Stieglitz and Lewis Hine; as well as documentaries inspired by the Depression, esp. Walker Evans's American Photographs.

Images As History-Mathew Brady to Walker Evans

Reading American Photographs

Lincoln's smile and other enigmas

Sam Stephenson

W. Eugene Smith

An epic study of industrial Pittsburgh in the 1950s by the legendary photographer features his commemoration of the city's bicentennial and assembles most of the project's photography for the first time. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

W. Eugene Smith's Pittsburgh Project

Dream Street

Peter C. Bunnell

Peter Neill

The City: American Experience

Lawrence W. Levine

Photographs by a team of photographers who traveled across the United States documenting America's experience of the Great Depression and World War II.

Documenting America, 1935-1943

Investigates the continuing impact of the Brooklyn Bridge upon the American imagination, exploring both its symbolic significance as reflected in the works of Hart Crane and others and its importance as an engineering accomplishment

Fact and Symbol

Brooklyn Bridge

Including essays by some of this century's most prestigious literary critics -- Allen Tate, Yvor Winters, William Carlos Williams, R. P. Blackmur, R. W. B. Lewis, and Harold Bloom, among others -- this collection provides a thorough and telling introduction to Crane and his works, especially his collections of lyrical poetry, The Bridge and White Buildings. The volume is edited by Allen Trachtenberg, who has written extensively on Crane and his Whitman-like relationship to American culture.

A Collection of Critical Essays

Hart Crane

Edward Weston

This new book surveys Edward Weston's work more comprehensively and exhaustively than any previous work. A combination of biography and critical analysis, it offers more than 320 meticulously reproduced duotone images, nearly a quarter of which have never been reproduced in books before. The selected photographs trace Weston's career from his early days, through formative years in Mexico, and on through the balance of his career, which ended because of the onset of Parkinson's disease ten years prior to his death in 1958. Treated chronologically and emphasizing Weston's creative preoccupations in each period, the book includes work that he created in 1938 and 1939 with funds from the first two Guggenheim Foundation grants ever awarded to a photographer. To illustrate the book vintage prints have been selected from the copious Weston Archives at the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, Arizona, and the highly important Lane Collection at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Nearly 10,000 photographs have been examined in order to select those reproduced in the book.

Alan Trachtenberg

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