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Using history / Greta Pratt ; essays by Rennard Strickland and Karal Ann Marling ; book design, Greta Pratt and Claas Möller.

Title
Using history / Greta Pratt ; essays by Rennard Strickland and Karal Ann Marling ; book design, Greta Pratt and Claas Möller.
Author
Pratt, Greta
Publication
Göttingen : Steidl, 2005.

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  • Strickland, Rennard
  • Marling, Karal Ann
  • Möller, Claas
Description
1 v. (unpaged) : chiefly col. ill., ports. (chiefly col.); 28 cm.
Summary
Photographs of Americans celebrating their lives in the context of their view of history--Rennard Strickland.
Subject
  • Since 1971
  • Portraits, American
  • Color photography > United States
  • Photography, Artistic
  • Historical reenactments > United States > Pictorial works
  • History in art
  • Patriotism > United States > Pictorial works
  • Storytelling in art
  • Place (Philosophy) in art
  • Clothing and dress in art
  • Costume > Symbolic aspects > United States > Pictorial works
  • Symbolism in art > United States > Pictorial works
  • United States > Social life and customs > 1971- > Pictorial works
Genre/Form
Pictorial works
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
[Introduction] / Greta Pratt -- Public history, vernacular storytelling, and the search for self : observations on identity and the spirit of place in the American experience / Rennard Strickland -- Touring history with Greta Pratt : we have seen the past, American--and it is now! / Karal Ann Marling -- Captions.
ISBN
  • 3865211291
  • 9783865211293
OCLC
  • 62778709
  • SCSB-9929799
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library