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Lincoln's smile and other enigmas
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- Creator
- Alan Trachtenberg
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- First edition
- New York : Hill and Wang, 2007
- Physical Details
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- xix, 378 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0809042975, 9780809042975
- OCLC
- ocm65521599
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 1. Mirror in the marketplace : American responses to the daguerreotype, 1839-51 -- 2. Mute romance : stories of a daguerreotype -- 3. Seeing and believing : Hawthorne's reflections on the daguerreotype in The house of the seven gables -- 4. Lincoln's smile : ambiguities of the face in photography -- 5. Photographs as symbolic history -- 6. Whitman's lesson of the city -- 7. Reading the gilded age city -- 8. Horatio Alger's Ragged Dick -- 9. The form of freedom in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn -- 10. Experiments in another country : Stephen Crane's city sketches -- 11. Civic idealism in stone : Louis Sullivan's auditorium building -- 12. Mumford in the 1920s : the historian as artist -- 13. Brooklyn Bridge as a cultural text -- 14. Photography/cinematography -- 15. The FSA file : from image to story -- 16. Walker Evans's fictions of the South -- 17. W. Eugene Smith's Pittsburgh : rumors of a city -- 18. Realms of a shadow : film noir and the city -- 19. Things on film : Wright Morris's fields of vision