Alan Trachtenberg

Biographic Data

ID127850
NAMEAlan Trachtenberg
GIVEN NAMESAlan
FAMILY NAMETrachtenberg
SIGNATURETRACHTENBERG A
AFFILIATIONSYale University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS40
TOTAL CITATIONS66
AUTHOR COUNT39
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1964
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
H-INDEX6

  • The Politics of Labor and the Poet’s Work: A Reading of “A Song for Occupations”

    Alan TrachtenbergCHAPTERWalt Whitman2018

  • Photography and Social Knowledge

    Alan TrachtenbergARTICLEAmerican Art2015

  • How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York

    Jacob A Riis, Isabel Nuñez et al.BOOKHow the Other Half Lives2010

  • History

    Alan TrachtenbergARTICLEAmerican Art2009

  • Mental Health Disparities

    Marc A Safran, Robert A Mays et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health2009Cited by: 13References: 28

    Mental health disparities have received increased attention in the literature in recent years. After considering 165 different health disparity conditions, the Federal Collaborative for Health Disparities Research chose mental health disparity as one of four topics warranting its immediate national research attention. In this essay, we describe the challenges and opportunities encountered in developing a research agenda to address mental health d…

  • Through a Glass, Darkly: Photography and Cultural Memory

    Alan TrachtenbergARTICLESocial research2008Cited by: 1

    Alan Trachtenberg Through a Glass, Darkly: Photography and Cultural Memory " I D O N 'T K NO W W H Y a REPLICANT W O ULD COLLECT PHOTOS— MAYBE they were like Rachel—they needed m em ories." In the role of the bounty hunter Rick Deckard in Ridley Scott's 1982 cult classic, Blade Runner, Harrison Ford utters these words w ith a bitter edge. Assigned to "term inate" the beautiful Rachel, an "android" especially menacing because she's almost (almost!…

  • Singing Hiawatha: Longfellow’s Hybrid Myth of America

    Open AccessAlan TrachtenbergARTICLEThe Yale Review2002

  • Reading lessons: Stories of a daguerreotype

    Alan TrachtenbergARTICLENineteenth Century Contexts2001References: 1

  • Imaginary Nation: Photographic Constructions of “America

    Alan TrachtenbergARTICLERevue française d’études…2001Cited by: 2

    En disant que l’Amérique est « image » on la définit aussi comme « copie » ou « imitation ». Les voyageurs européens de Tocqueville à Baudrillard ont noté ce phénomène de secondarité ou de retard dans les formes culturelles américaines. On trouve une observation similaire, quoique d’un point de vue différent, dans le travail de plusieurs photographes américains. Dans les images de Walker Evans et de Lee Friedlander, des visions plus ironiques ou …

  • The Birth of the American Century

    Alan Trachtenberg, David TraxelARTICLEJournal of American History1999

    Journal Article 1898: The Birth of the American Century. By David Traxel. (New York: Knopf, 1998. xiv, 365 pp. $28.95, ISBN 0-679-45467-5.) Get access Alan Trachtenberg Alan Trachtenberg Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Pages 197–198, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567420 Published: 01 June 1999

  • The World of Francis Cooper: Nineteenth Century Pennsylvania Photographer

    Open AccessAlan TrachtenbergARTICLEVisual Anthropology Review1998

    The World of Francis Cooper: Nineteenth Century Pennsylvania Photographer. Jay Ruby. State Park: Penn State University Press. 304 pp, illus

  • Wild West Shows and the Images of American Indians, 1883-1933

    Alan Trachtenberg, L G Moses et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1997

    Journal Article Wild West Shows and the Images of American Indians, 1883–1933. By L. G. Moses., Dressing in Feathers: The Construction of the Indian in American Popular Culture. Ed. by S. Elizabeth Bird. and The Lasting of the Mohicans: History o f an American Myth. By Martin Barker and Roger Sabin Get access Alan Trachtenberg Alan Trachtenberg Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Googl…

  • "Wright Morris's "Photo-Texts

    Alan TrachtenbergARTICLEYale journal of criticism/ The…1996

    Wright Morris’s “Photo-texts” Alan Trachtenberg (bio) Wright Morris’s inspiration in the 1940s to combine words and photographs resulted in several unique works of fiction, “photo-texts,” he called them, in which image and text stand to each other in quite unexpected ways.1 In The Inhabitants (1946), The Home Place (1948), and God’s Country and My People, (1968) picture and word cohabitate in a manner of mutual and complex exchange.2 At a casual …

  • Traces of War: Poetry, Photography, and the Crisis of the Union

    Alan Trachtenberg, Timothy SweetARTICLEAmerican Literature1992

  • Old Wine in New Bottles: Photography and the American Myth

    Lary May, Alan TrachtenbergARTICLEReviews in American History1991

  • Reading American Photographs: Images as History, Mathew Brady to Walker Evans

    Peter Bacon Hales, Alan TrachtenbergARTICLEJournal of American History1990Cited by: 12

    Journal Article Reading American Photographs: Images as History, Mathew Brady to Walker Evans. By Alan Trachtenberg. (New York: Hill and Wang, 1989. xxiv + 326 pp. $25.00.) Get access Peter Bacon Hales Peter Bacon Hales University of Illinois, Chicago Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 1, June 1990, Pages 268–270, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078663 Published: 01 June…

  • Deconstructing American Photographs

    Open AccessDavid P Peeler, Maren Stange et al.ARTICLEAmerican Quarterly1990

  • The Morality of Spending: Attitudes toward the Consumer Society in America, 1875-1940

    Alan Trachtenberg, Daniel HorowitzARTICLEThe Journal of Interdisciplinary…1988

  • All the World's a Fair: Visions of Empire at American Internation Expositions, 1876-1916

    Alan Trachtenberg, Robert W RydellARTICLEJournal of American History1986

    Journal Article All the World's a Fair: Visions of Empire at American International Expositions, 1876–1916. By Robert W. Rydell. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984. x + 328 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $27.50.) Get access Alan Trachtenberg Alan Trachtenberg Yale University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 73, Issue 1, June 1986, Page 214, ht…

  • At Work and Play in Worcester

    Alan Trachtenberg, Roy RosenzweigARTICLEReviews in American History1985

  • The American West Comes Out of the Closet-Partially

    Open AccessAlan Trachtenberg, Peter E Palmquist et al.ARTICLEAmerican Quarterly1985

  • Albums of War: On Reading Civil War Photographs

    Alan TrachtenbergARTICLERepresentations1985Cited by: 7

    Research Article| January 01 1985 Albums of War: On Reading Civil War Photographs Alan Trachtenberg Alan Trachtenberg Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Representations (1985) 9: 1–32. https://doi.org/10.2307/3043765 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Sea…

  • Half a Truth Is Better Than None: Some Unsystematic Conjectures about Art, Disorder, and American Experience

    Alan Trachtenberg, John A KouwenhovenARTICLETechnology and Culture1985

  • America, Inc

    Benjamin Mcarthur, Alan TrachtenbergARTICLEReviews in American History1983

  • The incorporation of America: Culture and Society in the Gilded Age

    Alan TrachtenbergBOOKThe incorporation of America1982Cited by: 12

    Alan Trachtenberg presents a balanced analysis of the expansion of capitalist power in the last third of the nineteenth century and the cultural changes it brought in its wake. In America's westward expansion, labor unrest, newly powerful cities, and newly mechanized industries, the ideals and ideas by which Americans lived were reshaped, and American society became more structured, with an entrenched middle class and a powerful business elite. T…