Reframing America: Alexander Alland, Otto Hagel & Hansel Mieth, John Gutmann, Lisette Model, Marion Palfi, Robert Frank (Points of Entry) - Softcover

Andrei; Terence Pitts; Et Al Codrescu

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0938262270 ISBN 13: 9780938262275

Publisher: Univ of New Mexico Pr (Distribution), 1995

Synopsis

Fleeing fascism, war, and persecution, numerous European artists and photographers came to the United States during the mass emigrations of the 1930s and 1940s. These émigrés brought with them a variety of artistic traditions and different perspectives on issues such as class, politics, and race, which dramatically affected American photography from the 1930s and the 1960s.

Reframing America explores the artistic and social visions of seven European émigré photographers who helped shape a new photography and a startling new vision of this country: Alexander Alland, Robert Frank, John Gutmann, Otto Hagel, Hansel Mieth, Lisette Model, and Marion Palfi. Among them, they depicted an America that was more complex and diverse and more deeply troubled than photography had ever shown before.

With remarkable power and insight, their imagery engaged some of the quintessential American themes of the era: the emerging cult of the automobile, Hollywood's glamorous and fictional America, the culture of jazz, and capitalism's blaring commercialism. Their accomplishments foreshadowed and influenced the work of such figures as William Klein, Diane Arbus, Bruce Davidson, and W. Eugene Smith.

About this title

From the Publisher:

Published by the Center for Creative Photography

Distributed by The University of New Mexico Press

About the Author:

Andrei Codrescu emigrated from Romania to the United States in 1966. He is a professor of English at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, and an acclaimed poet, author, and radio commentator. Terence Pitts, director of the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, Arizona, has authored several books on photography including George Fiske: Yosemite Photographer and Four Spanish Photographers.

About this edition

• Publisher: Univ of New Mexico Pr (Distribution)
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0938262270
• ISBN 13: 9780938262275
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96