How the Other Half Looks
：The Lower East Side and the Afterlives of Images
Publication subTitle ：The Lower East Side and the Afterlives of Images
Author： Blair Sara
Publisher： Princeton University Press
Publication year： 2018
E-ISBN: 9781400889242
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780691172224
Subject： I06 Literature, Literature Appreciation;J1 Overview of World Art;J41 various photography;J9 Movies, TV;K7 Americas History
Keyword： 各种摄影艺术,文学评论、文学欣赏,美洲史,世界各国艺术概况,电影、电视艺术
Language： ENG
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Description
How New York’s Lower East Side inspired new ways of seeing America
New York City's Lower East Side, long viewed as the space of what Jacob Riis notoriously called the "other half," was also a crucible for experimentation in photography, film, literature, and visual technologies. This book takes an unprecedented look at the practices of observation that emerged from this critical site of encounter, showing how they have informed literary and everyday narratives of America, its citizens, and its possible futures.
Taking readers from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, Sara Blair traces the career of the Lower East Side as a place where image-makers, writers, and social reformers tested new techniques for apprehending America--and their subjects looked back, confronting the means used to represent them. This dynamic shaped the birth of American photojournalism, the writings of Stephen Crane and Abraham Cahan, and the forms of early cinema. During the 1930s, the emptying ghetto opened contested views of the modern city, animating the work of such writers and photographers as Henry Roth, Walker Evans, and Ben Shahn. After World War II, the Lower East Side became a key resource for imagining poetic revolution, as in the work of Allen Ginsberg and LeRoi Jones, and exploring dystopian futures, from Cold War atomic strikes to the death of print culture and the threat of climate change.
How the Other Half Looks reveals how the Lower East Side
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