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Shooting from the Hip: Photography, Masculinity, and Postwar America by Patricia
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- ISBN-13
- 9780816643028
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- ISBN
- 9780816643028
- Book Title
- Shooting from the Hip : Photography, Masculinity, and Postwar America
- Item Length
- 9.9in
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press
- Publication Year
- 2005
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.6in
- Genre
- Photography, History, Social Science
- Topic
- United States / 20th Century, Men's Studies, Criticism, History
- Item Width
- 7in
- Item Weight
- 17 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 224 Pages
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In Shooting from the Hip, Patricia Vettel-Becker reveals how photography helped to reconstruct and redefine the American idea of masculinity after the traumas of World War II. She argues that from 1945 to 1960 photography became increasingly concerned with restoring the male body and psyche, glorifying traditional masculinity - cowboys, boxers, athletes, military men - while treading carefully in an increasingly homophobic Cold War climate. Examining photojournalism as well as art and fashion photography, Shooting from the Hip finds in the crisp images of postwar photography five models of masculinity - the breadwinner, the action hero, the tough guy, the playboy, and the rebel. Vettel- Becker shows how the professionalization of photography itself was an attempt by male photographers to identify themselves as breadwinners. She goes on to analyze combat photography, exposing its valorization of action, subjugation of the enemy, and the use of the blurred shot to signify credibility. She links street photography - heir to Depression-era social documentary - with hard-boiled crime photography, exemplified in the works of William Klein and Weegee. And sexualized fashion models and their relationships with photographers, such as Richard Avedon and Irving Penn, fuel the ideal of the consummate playboy. Finally, Vettel-Becker demonstrates the authentic and sometimes rebellious nature of the male body as presented by sports photographers and others influenced by the Beat generation, including Robert Frank and Bruce Davidson. Taking a wide view of postwar photography, Vettel-Becker presents it as the triumph of a new form of modernist photography, centered on individual expression and the seductive image of the male body, and stimulated by a quest for the existential truth of masculinity.
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University of Minnesota Press
ISBN-10
0816643024
ISBN-13
9780816643028
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43450564
Product Key Features
Book Title
Shooting from the Hip : Photography, Masculinity, and Postwar America
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
United States / 20th Century, Men's Studies, Criticism, History
Publication Year
2005
Genre
Photography, History, Social Science
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.9in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
7in
Item Weight
17 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Tr183.V48 2005
Table of Content
Contents Introduction 1. Gendering Photographic Practice: Amateurs, Breadwinners, and Artists 2. Combat Photography: Adventurers, Heroes, and Martyrs 3. Tough Guys in the City: Cameramen and Street Photographers 4. Female Body: Artists, Models, Playboys, and Femininity 5. Masculine Triumph: The Male Body, the Beats, and Existentialist Modernism Notes Index
Copyright Date
2005
Lccn
2004-021031
Dewey Decimal
770/.973/09045
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
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