America: Then & Now : Great Old Photographs of America's Life and Times-And How Those Same Scenes Look Today - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0062501763 ISBN 13: 9780062501769

Publisher: HarperCollins, 1992

Synopsis

A photographic survey of American life compares images from the past and present to show how the nation has changed in 150 years. By the author of A Day in the Life of America. 75,000 first printing. $150,000 ad/promo. Tour.

About this title

From Library Journal:

Cohen, editor of A Day in the Life of America and eight other titles from the "Day in the Life" series, has produced a variation on this theme: the then-and-now collection. Enlisting the services of such contemporary photographers as Douglas Kirkland and Paul Chesley, new photographs were matched with older prototypes. Some pairs are literal, such as the stunning gatefold showing two views of the New York City skyline from 1876 and 1992. Others are more conceptual: A bootlegger's haul seized at the border between the United States and Mexico in 1928 is compared to a 1991 heroin cache in San Francisco. A soup kitchen queue of 1931 is, sadly, all too close a match to last year's food line at a Philadelphia hospice. An excellent tool for history classes, thoroughly engaging for any browser, and a nostalgic look back for older readers, this book is a stand-out among visual surveys.
- Kathy J. Anderson, Onondaga Cty. P.L., Syracuse, N.Y.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0062501763
• ISBN 13: 9780062501769
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 232
• Editor: Cohen David