BOOKS by Laura Wexler

Fire in a Canebrake: The Last Mass Lynching in America more books like this

by Laura Wexler

With this masterfully written historical narrative, a gifted new author chronicles one of the most horrific racial crimes in 20th-century America and offers an unforgettable portrait of a time, a place, and a culture. Photos throughout.

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Pregnant Pictures more books like this

by Sandra Matthews, Laura Wexler

What does an image of a pregnant woman mean? Pregnant with meaning but resistant to interpretation, photos of pregnant bodies rarely appear in public. When they do, they viscerally challenge society's perception of women, sex, and reproduction. Pregnant Pictures assembles an astonishing and visually powerful collection of over 200 photos of ...

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Tender Violence: Domestic Visions in an Age of U.S. Imperialism more books like this

by Laura Wexler

Laura Wexler presents an incisive analysis of how the first American female photojournalists contributed to a "doctrine vision" that reinforced the imperialism and racism of America around the dawn of the 20th century. These women photographers, white and middle class, constructed images of war disguised as peace through a mechanism Wexler calls ...

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