“Reading American photographs is also a way of reading the past-not just the scenes recorded and the faces immobilized into permanent images, but the past as culture, as ways of thinking and feeling, as experience” — Alan Trachtenberg Copy Share Image
“The daguerreotype reproduces what appeared before a lens at a particular moment and never again-its appearance is simultaneous with its disappearance, its death.” — Alan Trachtenberg Copy Share Image
“Somewhere between what the lens depicts and what the caption interprets, a mental picture intervenes, a cultural ideology defining what and how to see,… — Alan Trachtenberg Copy Share Image
“Reading American photographs is also a way of reading the past-not just the scenes recorded and the faces immobilized into permanent images, but the… — Alan Trachtenberg Copy Share Image
