Making photography matter : a viewer's history from the Civil War to the Great Depression /

"Photography became a dominant medium in cultural life starting in the late nineteenth century. As it happened, viewers increasingly used their reations to photographs to comment on and debate public issues as vital as war, national identity, and citizenship"--Jacket

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Finnegan, Cara A.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2015]
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Online Access: Full text (Emmanuel users only)
Table of Contents:
  • The presence of unknown soldiers and imaginary spirits : viewing national grief and trauma in the Civil War
  • Recognizing Lincoln : portrait photography and the physiognomy of national character
  • Appropriating the healthy child : the child that toileth not and Progressive Era child labor photography
  • Managing the magnitude of the Great Depression : viewers respond to FSA photography.