Picturing America: Photography and the Sense of Place
- ISBN-10
- 9004385479
- ISBN-13
- 9789004385474
- Series
- Picturing America
- Category
- Photography
- Pages
- 282
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2018-12-10
- Publisher
- BRILL
Description
Picturing America argues that photography is a prevalent practice of making places, determining how we situate ourselves in the world. As a prime site of knowledge and change, it enacts our perception as well as transformative conception of American environments.
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Other editions
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- 2017-03-23
- 304 pages
- Ebook
- University of Chicago Press
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- 2017-03-23
- 289 pages
- Paperback
- University of Chicago Press
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- 2008
- 96 pages
- Paperback
- National Endowment for the Humanities
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