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The historian's eye : photography, history, and the American present / Matthew Frye Jacobson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jacobson, Matthew Frye, 1958- author, photographer.
- Series:
- Documentary arts and culture.
- North Carolina scholarship online.
- Documentary arts and culture
- North Carolina scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Documentary photography--United States.
- Documentary photography.
- Street photography--United States.
- Street photography.
- United States--History--21st century--Pictorial works.
- United States.
- United States--History--21st century.
- Obama, Barack.
- Genre:
- Illustrated works.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (186 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2020.
- Summary:
- Between 2009 and 2013, as the nation contemplated the historic election of Barack Obama and endured the effects of the Great Recession, Matthew Frye Jacobson set out with a camera to explore and document what was discernible to the 'historian's eye' during this tumultuous period. Having collected several thousand images, Jacobson began to reflect on their raw, informal immediacy alongside the recognition that they comprised an archive of a moment with unquestionable historical significance. This book presents more than 100 images alongside Jacobson's recollections of their moments of creation and his understanding of how they link past, present, and future. The images reveal diverse expressions of civic engagement that are emblematic of the aspirations, expectations, promises, and failures of this period in American history.
- Contents:
- Barack Obama, the icon
- At the crossroads of hope and despair
- Space available
- American studies road trip
- I want my country back
- Reflections.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 12, 2020).
- Previously issued in print: 2019.
- ISBN:
- 9798890855916
- 9781469649672
- 1469649675
- 9781469649689
- 1469649683
- OCLC:
- 1090728417
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