After Weegee : essays on contemporary Jewish American photographers / Daniel Morris.

Author/creator Morris, Daniel, 1962-
Format Book
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoSyracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2011.
Descriptionxxxi, 300 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subjects

SeriesJudaic 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 noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 283-291) and index.
LCCN 2011016670
ISBN9780815609872 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0815609876 (cloth : alk. paper)