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Looking backward : a photographic portrait of the world at the beginning of the twentieth century / Michael Lesy. by Lesy, Michael, 1945- W.W. Norton & Company, c2017. Call #: 778.4 L644L Subjects History, Modern -- 19th century -- Sources.   Photographic industry -- History -- 19th century.   Photography, Stereoscopic -- History -- 19th century. ISBN:  9780393239737 (hc) 039323973X (hc) Edition:  1st ed. Description:  294 p. : ill. ; 27 cm. Notes:  "Published in association with The California Museum of Photography" Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references. Contents:  Preface -- A short history of virtual reality: being in more than one place at one time -- The news: ten years of war and disaster -- Society -- The last stereograph company: Keystone View's progressive education -- The new world and the old -- The Middle East and the Holy Land -- The war photographer -- India and the Far East -- The natural world -- The steamer in the Fjord. Summary:  "In 1900 the stereograph was king. Its three-dimensional optics created a virtual presence for the viewer. Millions of Americans, especially schoolchildren, absorbed ideas about race, class, and gender from such 3D images...Drawing on an enormous, rarely seen collection of some 300,000 stereographic views spanning the first decade of the twentieth century, Michael Lesy presents nearly 250 images displaying a riot of peoples and cultures, stark class divisions, and unsettling glimpses of daily life a century ago...Haunting views of the early twentieth century's most significant events at home and in the farthest reaches of the world-war, rebellion, industrial revolution, and natural catastrophe-flank pictures of the last remnants of the premodern natural world. Lesy's evocative essays reassert the primacy of the stereograph in American visual history. He profiles the photographers who saw the world through their prejudices and the companies that sold their images everywhere."--Dust jacket flap. Other authors:  California Museum of Photography. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Nonfiction 778.4 L644L Core Collection - Adult Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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