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Alan Trachtenberg


Born
in Philadelphia, PA, The United States
March 22, 1932

Died
August 18, 2020

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Alan Trachtenberg was Neil Gray, Jr., Professor Emeritus of English and American Studies at Yale University.

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The Incorporation of Americ...

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Classic Essays on Photography

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“Somewhere between what the lens depicts and what the caption interprets, a mental picture intervenes, a cultural ideology defining what and how to see, what to recognize as significant.”
Alan Trachtenberg, Reading American Photographs: Images as History: Mathew Brady to Walker Evans

“The daguerreotype reproduces what appeared before a lens at a particular moment and never again-its appearance is simultaneous with its disappearance, its death.”
Alan Trachtenberg, Reading American Photographs: Images as History: Mathew Brady to Walker Evans

“Reading American photographs is also a way of reading the past-not just the scenes recorded and the faces immobilized into permanent images, but the past as culture, as ways of thinking and feeling, as experience”
Alan Trachtenberg, Reading American Photographs: Images as History: Mathew Brady to Walker Evans

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