Looking Backward
A Photographic Portrait of the World at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century
Format:Hardback
Publisher:WW Norton & Co
Published:26th May '17
Should be back in stock very soon
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.
"The author is one of America's leading photographic historians and so a collection of images selected by him is going to appeal to the professional eye as well as the more casual enquiring reader... A fascinating collection, annotated in great detail, and certainly food for thought and meditation." -- State Media
ISBN: 9780393239737
Dimensions: 264mm x 254mm x 28mm
Weight: 1564g
256 pages