“Reading American photographs is also a way of reading the past-not just the scenes recorded and the faces immobilized into permanent images, but the past as culture, as ways of thinking and feeling, as experience”
Alan Trachtenberg
Reading American Photographs: Images as History: Mathew Brady to Walker Evans
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