Silver Cities: Photographing American Urbanization, 1839-1939

by Peter Bacon Hales

First published in 1984, Silver Cities rapidly became a classic in the history of photography and in the then-nascent field of visual culture studies. Now this vastly expanded edition presents a lively interdisciplinary history of the first century of urban photography in America. Silver Cities envisions the transformation of American civilization via mass-produced and mass-disseminated photography of cities made between 1839 and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826331785
• ISBN13: 9780826331786
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Length: 528 Pages
• Weight: 3.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 8.2" x 10.3"