Brooklyn Bridge Fact and Symbol

Name: Brooklyn Bridge Fact and Symbol
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ISBN: 9780226811154

ISBN-10: 0226811158

ISBN-13: 9780226811154

Edition: 2nd 1979

Authors: Alan Trachtenberg

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Fourteen of Walker Evans's evocative photographs of Brooklyn Bridge, most of which have never been published, appear in this edition of Alan Trachenberg's Brooklyn Bridge: Fact and Symbol. In the new afterword Trachenberg explores the history of Hart Crane's The Bridge, especially the poem's integral relationship with the powerful photography of Evans. "[Brooklyn Bridge] is familiar in so many movies, in so many stage sets and, as Mr. Trachtenberg shows in this brilliant . . . book, it is at least as much a symbol as a reality. . . . Mr. Trachtenberg is always exciting and illuminating."--Times Literary Supplementnbsp; "The book isnbsp;a skillful and insightful synthesis of materials…

Book details

List price: $34.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1979
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 7/15/1979
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 216
Size: 0.61" wide x 0.90" long x 0.04" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



Preface to the Phoenix Edition


Preface


Prologue



Sources



Wilderness Transformed



The Rainbow and the Grid



An American Dream



Shape



A Master Plan



A Monument



Fact and Symbol



History—and Secret History



Opening Ceremonies



Two Kingdoms



The Shadow of a Myth


Epilogue A Walker Evans Portfolio


Afterword: Walker Evans's Brooklyn Bridge


Index