Looking backward : a photographic portrait of the world at the beginning of the twentieth century
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Looking backward : a photographic portrait of the world at the beginning of the twentieth century
W.W. Norton , Published in association with the California Museum of Photography, c2017
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-291)
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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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