“The daguerreotype reproduces what appeared before a lens at a particular moment and never again-its appearance is simultaneous with its disappearance, its… — Alan Trachtenberg Death 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… — Alan Trachtenberg Psychology 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,… — Alan Trachtenberg Photography Copy Share Image
