Reading National Geographic
Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Comfortable Strangers: The Making of National Identity in Popular Photography
2. Becoming America’s Lens on the World: National Geographic in the Twentieth Century
3. Inside the Great Machinery of Desire
4. A World Brightly Different: Photographic Conventions, 1950-1986
5. Fashions in the Ethnic Other
6. The Color of Sex: Postwar Photographic Histories of Race and Gender
7. The Photograph as an Intersection of Gazes
8. The Readers’ Imagined Geographic: An Evolutionary Tale
9. The Pleasures and Possibilities of Reading
Epilogue
Appendix A: Photograph Codes
Appendix B: Photographs Discussed in Interviews
References
Index
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Comfortable Strangers: The Making of National Identity in Popular Photography
2. Becoming America’s Lens on the World: National Geographic in the Twentieth Century
3. Inside the Great Machinery of Desire
4. A World Brightly Different: Photographic Conventions, 1950-1986
5. Fashions in the Ethnic Other
6. The Color of Sex: Postwar Photographic Histories of Race and Gender
7. The Photograph as an Intersection of Gazes
8. The Readers’ Imagined Geographic: An Evolutionary Tale
9. The Pleasures and Possibilities of Reading
Epilogue
Appendix A: Photograph Codes
Appendix B: Photographs Discussed in Interviews
References
Index
Association of American Publishers: PROSE Book Award
Honorable Mention
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