Picturing America : Photography and the Sense of Place

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.

Contents:

List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: The Place of Photography
1 From Sewers to Selfies: the Evolution of Photographs into Infrastructure
2 Nowhere, Now Here: Lee Friedlander’s Self Portrait and the National Ground
3 Photography, Revision, and the City in Henry James’s New York Edition and Alvin Langdon Coburn’s London
4 Gogol + Nikhil = Nikon? Power, Place, and Photography in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake
5 Relations to the Real: the Fugitive Documentary of Stan Douglas and James Casebere
6 Waste Landscapes: Photographing the Course of Empire
7 Wear Your Shelter: Climate Change Photography and Mary Mattingly’s Nomadographies
8 At Home: the Visual Culture of Privacy
9 Pictorialism in the American West and Regionalism Writ-Large
10 The Governing Eye: Heart Mountain through the Lens of War Relocation Authority and Bureau of Reclamation Photographs
11 Over Here, Over There, Down Below: American Photographers Confront the Great War
12 Remapping the Geography of Class: Photography, Protest, and the Politics of Space in the 1968 Poor People’s Campaign
13 The Power of Place in Holocaust Postmemory Photography
14 Non-Places: Stone Quarries Near Eichstatt, Germany
Index