After Weegee : essays on contemporary Jewish American photographers / Daniel Morris
| Author(s): | Morris, Daniel, 1962- |
|---|---|
| Location: |
Retrieving Holdings Information |
| Subjects: | Photographers--United States--Biography Jewish photographers--United States--Biography Photography--United States--History--20th century Photographic criticism Weegee, 1899-1968--Criticism and interpretation |
| Formats: | |
| Material Type: | Books |
| Language: | English |
| Audience: | Unspecified |
| Edition: | 1st ed |
| Published: | Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2011 |
| Series: | Judaic traditions in literature, music, and art Judaic traditions in literature, music, and art |
| LC Classification: | T, TR |
| Notes: | LCCN: 2011016670 ISBN: 9780815609872 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN: 0815609876 (cloth : alk. paper) Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-291) and index Contents: "Weegee's nation": hybridic communities and exilic identity in naked city, Weegee's people, and Weegee by Weegee -- Aestheticism, Jewish identity, and representing the other Bruce Davidson and the legacy of Aaron Siskind and the New York photo league -- Revisioning the New York school social documentary tradition image-text relations in Jim Goldberg's rich and Poor and Raised by wolves -- Pedagogy of the oppressed, diasporic memories, and postmodern memorialization in Mel Rosenthal's In the South Bronx of America -- "The backwards man" and "the Jewish giant" mirrors of traumatic memory in the late photographs of Diane Arbus -- Historical memorialization and personal memory in Lee Friedlander's self-portrait and American monument -- A living theater: constructing a countercultural history in Allen Ginsberg: photographs -- Annie Leibovitz's return to experience in A photographer's life, American music, and Annie Leibovitz at work -- Sacred space and secular concern in the photography of Tyagan Miller -- Ambivalent Jewish masculinity in Marc Asnin's Uncle Charlie |
| Physical Description: | xxxi, 300 p. : ill. ; 24 cm |
| OCLC Number: | 681500662 |
| ISBN/ISSN: | 9780815609872 0815609876 |