Free Download Laura Wexler, "Tender Violence: Domestic Visions in an Age of U.S. Imperialism"
English | 2000 | pages: 383 | ISBN: 0807825700, 0807848832 | PDF | 51,4 mb
Laura Wexler presents an incisive analysis of how the first American female photojournalists contributed to a "domestic vision" that reinforced the imperialism and racism of turn-of-the-century America. These women photographers, white and middle class, constructed images of war disguised as peace through a mechanism Wexler calls the "averted eye," which had its origins in the private domain of family photography.
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