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

Michael Lesy (Hampshire College)

Looking Backward: A Photographic Portrait of the World at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century
Format
Hardback
Publisher
WW Norton & Co
Country
United States
Published
26 May 2017
Pages
256
ISBN
9780393239737

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

Michael Lesy (Hampshire College)

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.

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