After Weegee : essays on contemporary Jewish American photographers / Daniel Morris.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morris, Daniel, 1962-

Series:

Judaic traditions in literature, music, and art

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Weegee, 1899-1968.

Photographers--United States--Biography.

Photographers.

Criticism and interpretation.

Photography.

History.

Jewish photographers.

United States.

Jewish photographers--United States--Biography.

Photography--United States--History--20th century.

Photographic criticism.

Weegee, 1899-1968--Criticism and interpretation.

Weegee.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xxxi, 300 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2011.

Summary:

The Jewish American photographer known as Weegee (1899-1968) was a crime scene photographer famous for his Naked City photobook. "After Weegee" refers to how the immigrant's artistic heirs treat their Jewish identity and social issues. Morris (English and Jewish studies, Purdue U.) critically examines the featured photographs of ten artists including Bruce Davidson, Jim Goldberg, Mel Rosenthal, Lee Friedlander, Allen Ginsberg, Annie Leibovitz, and Tyagan Miller. He also addresses whether there is a Jewish American photography (or other art) whether or not specifically Jewish themes are the focus. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

1 "Weegee's Nation": Hybridic Communities and Exilic Identity in Naked City, Weegee's People, and Weegee by Weegee 1

2 Aestheticism, Jewish Identity, and Representing the Other: Bruce Davidson and the Legacy of Aaron Siskind and the New York Photo League 41

3 Revisioning the New York School Social Documentary Tradition: Image-Text Relations in Jim Goldberg's Rich and Poor and Raised by Wolves 69

4 Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Diasporic Memories, and Postmodern Memorialization in Mel Rosenthal's: In the South Bronx of America 115

5 "The Backwards Man" and "The Jewish Giant": Mirrors of Traumatic Memory in the Late Photographs of Diane Arbus 140

6 Historical Memorialization and Personal Memory in Lee Friedlander's Self-Portrait and American Monument 157

7 A Living Theater: Constructing a Countercultural History in Allen Ginsberg: Photographs 175

8 Annie Leibovitz's Return to Experience in A Photographer's Life, American Music, and Annie Leibovitz at Work 194

9 Sacred Space and Secular Concern in the Photography of Tyagan Miller 229

10 Ambivalent Jewish Masculinity in Marc Asnin's Uncle Charlie 252.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780815609872

0815609876

OCLC:

681500662