"American Gothic”
A01=Aimee Hess
A01=Carla D. Hayden
A01=Hannah Freece
Age Group_Uncategorized
Age Group_Uncategorized
albumen
ambrotype
architecture
Author_Aimee Hess
Author_Carla D. Hayden
Author_Hannah Freece
automatic-update
Betty White
Black Lives Matter
Black Rosie the Riveter
Cassius Clay
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=AJ
Chrysler Building
climate change
COP=United States
daguerreotype
Death Valley
Delivery_Delivery within 10-20 working days
Detroit
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Eero Saarinen
Ella Fitzgerald
eq_art-fashion-photography
eq_bestseller
eq_isMigrated=0
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
Farm Security Administration
first flight
first selfie
Gee's Bend
gelatin silver
glacier
glass negative
Gordon Parks
Ground Zero
Harlem
Hiroshima
inkjet print
Japanese internment
Jessye Norman
landscape
Language_English
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
Look magazine
Margaret McBride
Melbourne
Migrant Mother
Muhammad Ali
National Child Labor Committee
PA=Available
Pat Tillman
photochrom
photograph
photography
pictorialist photography
platinum print
portrait
Price_€20 to €50
PS=Active
softlaunch
tintype
Twin Towers
voting rights
war
Wright Brothers
Yellowstone
Yosemite
Product details
- ISBN 9780844495842
- Weight: 272g
- Dimensions: 194 x 194mm
- Publication Date: 14 Mar 2023
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
Since photography's invention in the early nineteenth century, the medium has produced countless thought-provoking images. The Library of Congress holds more than seventeen million photographs in its collections, ranging from some of the earliest images ever taken to photographs by artists working today. The Joy of Looking: Great Photographs from the Library of Congress presents a selection of striking photographs that deserve a closer look.
Both familiar and less well-known photographs appear in this volume. Dorothea Lange's 1936 portrait of Florence Owens Thompson, commonly known as "Migrant Mother," is widely celebrated for humanizing the plight of struggling migrant workers during the Great Depression. Others, like street photographer Anthony Angel's lively series of two women sitting on a New York City park bench in 1952, were unknown during the photographer's lifetime and deserve greater attention.
The Joy of Looking invites you to explore the myriad ways the photos in this collection can be experienced. Explore shape and movement; light and darkness; color and textures. Consider connections and conversations between photos. The longer you look, the more you'll see.
About the Series: Collection Close-Ups celebrate the diversity, breadth, and depth of Library of Congress collections by gathering about 100 items around a common theme or set of characteristics. These short, affordable, and accessible books bring Library collections to life through historical anecdotes, colorful images, descriptive captions, and sidebars.
Both familiar and less well-known photographs appear in this volume. Dorothea Lange's 1936 portrait of Florence Owens Thompson, commonly known as "Migrant Mother," is widely celebrated for humanizing the plight of struggling migrant workers during the Great Depression. Others, like street photographer Anthony Angel's lively series of two women sitting on a New York City park bench in 1952, were unknown during the photographer's lifetime and deserve greater attention.
The Joy of Looking invites you to explore the myriad ways the photos in this collection can be experienced. Explore shape and movement; light and darkness; color and textures. Consider connections and conversations between photos. The longer you look, the more you'll see.
About the Series: Collection Close-Ups celebrate the diversity, breadth, and depth of Library of Congress collections by gathering about 100 items around a common theme or set of characteristics. These short, affordable, and accessible books bring Library collections to life through historical anecdotes, colorful images, descriptive captions, and sidebars.
Aimee Hess is managing editor of the Library of Congress Publishing Office. She is the author of biographies of Helen Keller and Margaret Mead for the Library's Women Who Dare Series.
Hannah Freece is a writer-editor in the Library's Publishing Office. The two previously collaborated on Shall Not Be Denied: Women Fight for the Vote.
Carla D. Hayden is the fourteenth Librarian of Congress.
Hannah Freece is a writer-editor in the Library's Publishing Office. The two previously collaborated on Shall Not Be Denied: Women Fight for the Vote.
Carla D. Hayden is the fourteenth Librarian of Congress.
