Amelia Earhart: Image and Icon

by Sue Butler

Amelia Earhart remains nearly as famous today as she was in 1937, the year her plane disappeared over the Pacific. What roles did photography and the media play in constructing her iconography? In an era when aviators were glamorous symbols of adventure and modernity, she launched herself into instant celebrity by becoming the first woman to fly across the Atlantic, her celebrity aided considerably by the flight promoter and publisher George Palmer...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 386521407X
• ISBN13: 9783865214072
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: Steidl
• Length: 165 Pages
• Weight: 2.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 9.5" x 12.5"