Author: LESY, Michael
Title: Looking Backward - A Photographic Portrait of the World at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century. [New].
Description: New York & London, W.W. Norton & Company, 2017. 26 x 25 cm. 294 pp. Bound with dustjacket. lllustrated in b/w. - A transporting work of photographic history that offers a haunting vision of how Americans viewed the world at the dawn of the twentieth century. - In 1900 the stereograph was king. Its three-dimensional optics created a virtual presence for the viewer. Millions of Americans, especially schoolchildren, absorbed ideas about race, class, and gender from such 3D images, the embodiment of the notion that 'seeing is believing.' Drawing on an enormous, rarely seen collection of some 300,000 stereographic views spanning the first decade of the twentieth century, Michael Lesy presents nearly 250 images displaying a riot of peoples and cultures, stark class divisions, and unsettling glimpses of daily life a century ago. - New copy

Keywords: 9780393239737


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