An 1840 selfie to 1960s advertising: Eight images that tell the story of America
BBCAn 1840 selfie to 1960s advertising: Eight images that tell the story of America Just now Deborah Nicholls-Lee Bill Stettner A new exhibition of more than 200 photographs charts 300 years of image-making in the US, showing how the country's history and photography have run in parallel. The image, the company boasted, was "the largest specially posed group picture ever made" and illustrates a turning point where industry saw the value in investing large sums in promotional photography. "Commercial photography is very often overlooked and not collected by museums, but it's a fascinating field pictorially," says Rooseboom. Courtesy of Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie This is not a commercial, this is my homeland by Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie The political power of photography is Tsinhnahjinnie's captioning of a touristic image of Monument Valley, Arizona with This is not a commercial, this is my homeland highlights the commodification of American land, and uses what she calls "photographic sovereignty" to take us back to the very beginning and reclaim and retell the story of America.
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