Looking Backward: A Photographic Portrait of the World at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century

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Michael Lesy

Looking Backward

A Photographic Portrait of the World at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century

Michael Lesy

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English

Norton
19 May 2017

Photography & photographs

At the turn of the twentieth century, the stereograph was king. Its binocular images revealed the world in vivid, three-dimensional detail. Drawing on an enormous, rarely seen collection of stereographic views, Michael Lesy presents images displaying a riot of peoples and cultures, stark class divisions and unsettling glimpses of daily life a century ago. Lesy's evocative essays reassert the primacy of the stereograph in American visual history. In underscoring the unnerving parallels between that period and our own, Looking Backward reveals a history that shadows us today.

By: Michael Lesy
Imprint: Norton
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 264mm, Width: 254mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 1.564kg
ISBN: 9780393239737
ISBN 10: 039323973X
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 19 May 2017
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Michael Lesy is one of America's leading photographic scholars. His books include Wisconsin Death Trip, Murder City, Angel's World, and Long Time Coming. He lives in Amherst, Massachusetts, where he teaches literary journalism at Hampshire College.

Reviews for Looking Backward: A Photographic Portrait of the World at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century

The author is one of America's leading photographic historians and so a collection of images selected by him is going to appeal to the professional eye as well as the more casual enquiring reader... A fascinating collection, annotated in great detail, and certainly food for thought and meditation. -- State Media