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Alan Trachtenberg

    Tento autor zkoumá americkou kulturu prostřednictvím literární kritiky. Jeho práce se soustředí na vizuální a kulturní historii, přičemž analyzuje, jakým způsobem obrazy a texty formují naše chápání minulosti. Tímto přístupem odhaluje složité vztahy mezi uměním, médii a společností.

    Classic Essays on Photography
    The Incorporation of America
    How the Other Half Lives
    The American Image
    Documenting America, 1935-1943
    • How the Other Half Lives

      Studies Among the Tenements of New York

      • 276 stránek
      • 10 hodin čtení

      The belief that every man's experience ought to be worth something to the community from which he drew it, no matter what that experience may be, so long as it was gleaned along the line of some decent, honest work, made me begin this book. With the result before him, the reader can judge for himself now whether or not I was right. Right or wrong, the many and exacting duties of a newspaper man's life would hardly have allowed me to bring it to an end but for frequent friendly lifts given me by willing hands. To the President of the Board of Health, Mr. Charles G. Wilson, and to Chief Inspector Byrnes of the Police Force I am indebted for much kindness. The patient friendship of Dr. Roger S. Tracy, the Registrar of Vital Statistics, has done for me what I never could have done for myself; for I know nothing of tables, statistics and percentages, while there is nothing about them that he does not know. Most of all, I owe in this, as in all things else, to the womanly sympathy and the loving companionship of my dear wife, ever my chief helper, my wisest counsellor, and my gentlest critic. J. A. R.

      How the Other Half Lives2010
      4,2
    • The Incorporation of America

      • 262 stránek
      • 10 hodin čtení

      A classic examination of the roots of corporate culture, newly revised and updated for the twenty first century Alan Trachtenberg presents a balanced analysis of the expansion of capitalist power in the last third of the nineteenth century and the cultural changes it brought in its wake. In America's westward expansion, labor unrest, newly powerful cities, and newly mechanized industries, the ideals and ideas by which Americans lived were reshaped, and American society became more structured, with an entrenched middle class and a powerful business elite. Here, in an updated edition which includes a new introduction and a revised bibliographical essay, is a brilliant, essential work on the origins of America's corporate culture and the formation of the American social fabric after the Civil War.

      The Incorporation of America2007
      3,8
    • This book presents fifteen case histories-- photographic series accompanied by texts summarizing information about the photographers, their work in the field, and their assignments and subjects

      Documenting America, 1935-19431988
      4,5
    • Classic Essays on Photography

      • 300 stránek
      • 11 hodin čtení

      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 Photography1980
    • The American Image

      Photographs from the National Archives, 1860-1960

      • 191 stránek
      • 7 hodin čtení

      Historical photographs collected from the National Archives.

      The American Image1979
      4,3