Reading National geographic /

Lutz, Catherine,

Reading National geographic / Catherine A. Lutz and Jane L. Collins. - xvii, 309 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-300) and index.

Comfortable strangers:the making of national identity in popular photography -- Becoming America's lens on the world: National Geographic in the Twentieth Century -- Inside the great machinery of desire -- A world brightly different: photographic conventions, 1950-1986 -- Fashions in the ethnic other -- The color of sex: postwar photographic histories of race and gender -- The photograph as an intersection of gazes -- The readers' imagined Geographic: an evolutionary tale -- The pleasures and possibilities of reading.

0226497232 9780226497235 0226497240 9780226497242

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National geographic.


American periodicals--History--20th century.
Books and reading--History--United States--20th century.

G1.N275 / L88 1993

910.5

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