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Alan Trachtenberg

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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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Average rating: 3.91 · 1,319 ratings · 122 reviews · 63 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Incorporation of America: Culture and Society in the Gilded Age 3.79 avg rating — 352 ratings — published 1982 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Classic Essays on Photography by Alan Trachtenberg (Editor), Amy Weinstein Meyers (Noted by) 3.86 avg rating — 184 ratings — published 1980 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Reading American Photographs: Images as History: Mathew Brady to Walker Evans 3.87 avg rating — 101 ratings — published 1989 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Brooklyn Bridge: Fact and Symbol (Phoenix Book; P828) 3.74 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 1979 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shades of Hiawatha: Staging Indians, Making Americans, 1880-1930 3.61 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2004 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	America & Lewis Hine 4.50 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 1997 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mike Disfarmer: Original Disfarmer Photographs by Alan Trachtenberg, Steven Kasher, Mike Disfarmer (Photographer) 4.47 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2005	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Distinctly American: The Photography of Wright Morris by Alan Trachtenberg, Ralph Lieberman, Wright Morris (Photographer) 3.80 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2002 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lincoln's Smile and Other Enigmas 2.89 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2007 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hart Crane: A collection of critical essays (A Spectrum book) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1982 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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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

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“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

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“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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