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Language: English
Published by W. W. Norton & Company, 2017
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- Title
- Looking Backward: A Photographic Portrait of the World at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century
- Author
- Lesy Ph.D., Michael
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Publication year
- 2017
- Condition
- very_good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 039323973X
- ISBN 13
- 9780393239737
Haunting views of the early twentieth century's most significant events flank pictures of the last remnants of the pre-modern world.
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.
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