After Weegee : essays on contemporary Jewish American photographers / Daniel Morris.
| Author/creator | Morris, Daniel, 1962- |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | 1st ed. |
| Publication Info | Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2011. |
| Description | xxxi, 300 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Judaic traditions in literature, music, and art Judaic traditions in literature, music, and art. ^A409019 |
| Contents | "Weegee's nation": hybridic communities and exilic identity in naked city, Weegee's people, and Weegee by Weegee -- Aestheticism, Jewish identity, and representing the other Bruce Davidson and the legacy of Aaron Siskind and the New York photo league -- Revisioning the New York school social documentary tradition image-text relations in Jim Goldberg's rich and Poor and Raised by wolves -- Pedagogy of the oppressed, diasporic memories, and postmodern memorialization in Mel Rosenthal's In the South Bronx of America -- "The backwards man" and "the Jewish giant" mirrors of traumatic memory in the late photographs of Diane Arbus -- Historical memorialization and personal memory in Lee Friedlander's self-portrait and American monument -- A living theater: constructing a countercultural history in Allen Ginsberg: photographs -- Annie Leibovitz's return to experience in A photographer's life, American music, and Annie Leibovitz at work -- Sacred space and secular concern in the photography of Tyagan Miller -- Ambivalent Jewish masculinity in Marc Asnin's Uncle Charlie. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-291) and index. |
| LCCN | 2011016670 |
| ISBN | 9780815609872 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0815609876 (cloth : alk. paper) |