Title & Author:

American photographs in Europe / edited by David E. Nye, Mick Gidley ; with contributions from Mick Gidley [and others].

Publication:

Amsterdam : VU University Press, 1994.

Description:

281 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Series:

European contributions to American studies ; 29

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
1. American Photographs in Europe / Mick Gidley and David E. Nye -- 2. Transnational Photographic Communication / David E. Nye -- 3. Made in America: A Stereoscopic View of the United States / Judith Babbitts -- 4. American Photographs in Europe and Illusions of Travel / David E. Haberstich -- 5. An American Photographer in Europe: Alfred Stieglitz's Continental Images / Graham Clarke -- 6. From Sublime Vision to "The Thing in Itself": American Art Photography at German Exhibitions, 1893-1929 / Maren Kroger -- 7. A Transatlantic Emanation: The Kodak Comes to Britain / Colin Harding -- 8. A Catholic Wonderland: Pictorial Images of America In Katholieke Illustratie, 1867-1942 / Marja Roholl -- 9. America Seen from Within and Without: Representations of the United States in the Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung, Weimar Republic to the Third Reich / Horst Jorgen Rutsch -- 10. Migrating Images: The Role of Photography in Immigrant Writing / Rob Kroes.
11. American Photography in France since World War II: Was France Liberated by the United States? / Jean Kempf -- 12. Time Incorporated Stink Club: The Influence of Life on the Founding of Magnum Photos / Rudolf Janssens and Gertjan Kalff -- 13. The Americans in Europe: Text, Context, Reception / Robert&Silberman -- 14. The Family of Man on the Road to Moscow / Eric J. Sandeen -- 15. Conclusions / Mick Gidley.

Summary:

This collection of essays explores how American photographs entered European culture. From the 1840s on, photographs contributed to stereotypes of the United States, interpreting American events and characteristic landscapes. This was a complex process, in which Europeans were intimately involved, both as photographers and as disseminators of American images. Photographs were always inflected during the process of cultural transmission. They were cropped, captioned, and positioned within new frames of reference. For example, New Deal photographs received an entirely new set of meanings in Nazi Germany. Likewise, in the contexts of world's fairs, mass distribution magazines, art exhibitions, advertising and immigration, American images played a central role in defining what was considered distinctive about the United States. This path-breaking work charts the contours of this area of intercultural communication for the first time and is arranged as a series of case studies within a chronological and theoretical framework provided by the editors.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

9053833048
9789053833049

Subject:

Photography United States Influence.
Photography United States History.
Photography Europe History.
Photographie Europe Histoire.
Civilization American influences.
Photography.
Photography Influence.
Public opinion, European.
Fotografie
Geschichte
Aufsatzsammlung
Foto's.
Amerikanen.
Photography United States.
Photojournalism.
Europe Civilization American influences.
United States Foreign public opinion, European.
Europe Civilisation Influence américaine.
Europe.
United States.
USA
Europa
United States Pictorial works.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Nye, David E., 1946-
Gidley, M. (Mick)
European contributions to American studies ; 29.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 237067
Call No.: BIB 166890
Status: Available