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title: "3 Alan Trachtenberg Quotes - Famous Historian"
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# Alan Trachtenberg

(1932–2020)   Historian

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Alan Trachtenberg was a historian.

## Quick Facts About Alan Trachtenberg

Born March 22, 1932

Died August 18, 2020

Profession Historian

## About Alan Trachtenberg

American historian (1932-2020)... \| Alan Zelick Trachtenberg was an American historian and the Neil Gray Jr. Professor of English and professor emeritus of American Studies at Yale University.

##  Quotes by Alan Trachtenberg

> [“The daguerreotype reproduces what appeared before a lens at a particular moment and never again-its appearance is simultaneous with its disappearance, its…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-trachtenberg/the-daguerreotype-reproduces-what-appeared-before-a-lens-at-a/)

Alan Trachtenberg

[Death](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/death/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/531/alan-trachtenberg-76840_death_the-daguerreotype-reproduces-what-appear_550429.jpg)

> [“Somewhere between what the lens depicts and what the caption interprets, a mental picture intervenes, a cultural ideology defining what and how…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-trachtenberg/somewhere-between-what-the-lens-depicts-and-what-the-caption/)

Alan Trachtenberg

[Photography](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/photography/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bba/alan-trachtenberg-76840_psychology_somewhere-between-what-the-lens-depicts_2066855.jpg)

> [“Reading American photographs is also a way of reading the past-not just the scenes recorded and the faces immobilized into permanent images,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-trachtenberg/reading-american-photographs-is-also-a-way-of-reading-the-past-not/)

Alan Trachtenberg

[Photography](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/photography/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f71/alan-trachtenberg-76840_photography_reading-american-photographs-is-also-a-w_2924082.jpg)

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