Imaging animal industry : American meatpacking in photography and visual culture / Emily Kathryn Morgan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morgan, Emily Kathryn, author.

Series:

Iowa and the Midwest experience

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Packing-houses--United States--History.

Packing-houses.

Photography, Industrial--United States--History.

Photography, Industrial.

Slaughtering and slaughter-houses--United States--Public opinion.

Slaughtering and slaughter-houses.

Meat industry and trade--United States--History--Sources.

Meat industry and trade.

Physical Description:

x, 279 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2024]

Summary:

"Imaging Animal Industry: American Meatpacking in Photography and Visual Culture focuses on the visual culture of the American meat industry between 1890 and 1960. It describes how, during that period, photographs and other images helped to shape public perceptions of industrial-scale meat production. Although the meat industry today bans most photography of its facilities, in the past this was not always the case: the meat industry not only tolerated but welcomed cameras. Meatpacking companies and industry organizations regarded photographs as useful tools for creating and managing a vision of their activities, their innovations, and their contributions to the march of American economic and industrial progress. Drawing on archival collections across the American Midwest, this book relates a history of the meatpacking industry's use of images in the early-to-mid twentieth century. In the process it reveals the key role that images, particularly photographs, have played in assisting the rise of industrial meat production"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Inside views : machinery, perspective, and the controlled narrative

Realizing corporate visions : Torkel Korling and Arthur Siegel

Purity, harmony, identity : marketing meat to women

Picturing meatpacking work

Epilogue : posing with pigs : care, control, dispatch.

Notes:

Includes bibliography (pages 249-271) and index

Other Format:

Online version: Morgan, Emily Kathryn. Imaging animal industry

ISBN:

9781609389635

1609389638

OCLC:

1412500026

Publisher Number:

99996832273