Reading National Geographic

Name: Reading National Geographic
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ISBN: 9780226497242

ISBN-10: 0226497240

ISBN-13: 9780226497242

Edition: 1993 (Reprint)

Authors: Catherine A. Lutz, Jane L. Collins

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For its millions of readers, the National Geographic has long been a window to the world of exotic peoples and places. In this fascinating account of an American institution, Catherine A. Lutz and Jane L. Collins explore the possibility that the magazine, in purporting to teach us about distant cultures, actually tells us much more about our own. Lutz and Collins take us inside the National Geographic Society to investigate how its photographers, editors, and designers select images and text to produce representations of Third World cultures. Through interviews with the editors, they describe the process as one of negotiating standards of "balance" and "objectivity," informational content…

Book details

List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 11/1/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 328
Size: 0.60" wide x 0.90" long x 0.08" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Preface


Acknowledgments



Comfortable Strangers: The Making of National Identity in Popular Photography



Becoming America's Lens on the World: National Geographic in the Twentieth Century



Inside the Great Machinery of Desire



A World Brightly Different: Photographic Conventions, 1950-1986



Fashions in the Ethnic Other



The Color of Sex: Postwar Photographic Histories of Race and Gender



The Photograph as an Intersection of Gazes



The Readers' Imagined Geographic: An Evolutionary Tale



The Pleasures and Possibilities of Reading


Epilogue



Photograph Codes



Photographs Discussed in Interviews


References


Index