Carol Quirke
Biographic Data
| ID | 830396 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carol Quirke |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carol |
| FAMILY NAME | Quirke |
| SIGNATURE | QUIRKE C |
| AFFILIATIONS | State University of New York at Old Westbury , Old Westbury, New York |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
"Carol Quirke. Review of "Quitting Your Day Job: "Chauncey Hare’s Photographic Work" by Robert Slifkin
Photogrammar
The Journal of American History, in collaboration with the Web site History Matters: The U.S. Survey Course on the Web, http://historymatters.gmu.edu, publishes regular reviews of digital history projects. The reviews appear both in the printed journal and at History Matters. History Matters provides an annotated guide to more than one thousand projects for teaching U.S. history. The goal is to offer a gateway to the works in digital history and …
Front Pages, Front Lines: Media and the Fight for Women's Suffrage
This collection follows a special volume of American Journalism devoted to the Nineteenth Amendment's centennial. Front Pages, Front Lines delves into journalism and the suffrage movement, examining mainstream press coverage and the movement's exploitation of media, primarily journalism, to represent and promote the franchise for women. Thirteen essays move from the antebellum period through to the late twentieth century; most of the chapters tre…
In a Rugged Land: Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, and the Three Mormon Towns Collaboration, 1953–1954. By James R. Swensen
Few photographers had as contentious a relationship as Dorothea Lange and Ansel Adams. Friends and colleagues for nearly half a century, they continually sniped at one another, in public and in private. Lange made her name in the Farm Security Administration (FSA), documenting the economic devastation of the Great Depression; Adams, photographer of a sublime landscape, called the FSA “a bunch of sociologists with cameras”(Nancy Wood and Roy Stryk…
The Historian's Eye: Photography, History, and the American Present
From 2009 to 2014 Matthew Frye Jacobson crisscrossed the United States, taking thousands of photographs. He documented a wide range of issues roiling the republic: intractable racism, a yawning wealth gap, xenophobia, violence, and a media-saturated, surveillant nation. He tracked citizens’ movements challenging inequalities, and the rise of reactionary counter movements. In The Historian's Eye he publishes a selection of these photographs and ne…
Imagining Racial Equality
Local 65 United Warehouse Workers Union (1933-1987), which became District 65 United Auto Workers, promoted photography with a camera club, and a member-edited newspaper New Voices, featuring photographs taken by members. This left-led, New York City distributive industry union began in 1933 on the Lower East Side, and it became the city's second largest local. The union utilized photography to normalize the role of African American members withi…
Reframing Chicago's Memorial Day Massacre, May 30, 1937
This essay re-examines one of the twentieth century's most well-known instances of violence against labor. It focuses on the incident's iconic imagery, which showed Chicago police beating and shooting at protesters in the midst of the 1937 "Little Steel" strike. As this essay reveals, newsreel footage and news photographs long held to demonstrate police responsibility for the violence first appeared in metropolitan dailies and nationally circulat…
Reframing Chicago's Memorial Day Massacre, May 30, 1937
This essay re-examines one of the twentieth century's most well-known instances of violence against labor. It focuses on the incident's iconic imagery, which showed Chicago police beating and shooting at protesters in the midst of the 1937 "Little Steel" strike. As this essay reveals, newsreel footage and news photographs long held to demonstrate police responsibility for the violence first appeared in metropolitan dailies and nationally circulat…
Reframing Chicago's Memorial Day Massacre, May 30, 1937
This essay re-examines one of the twentieth century's most well-known instances of violence against labor. It focuses on the incident's iconic imagery, which showed Chicago police beating and shooting at protesters in the midst of the 1937 "Little Steel" strike. As this essay reveals, newsreel footage and news photographs long held to demonstrate police responsibility for the violence first appeared in metropolitan dailies and nationally circulat…
Imagining Racial Equality
Local 65 United Warehouse Workers Union (1933-1987), which became District 65 United Auto Workers, promoted photography with a camera club, and a member-edited newspaper New Voices, featuring photographs taken by members. This left-led, New York City distributive industry union began in 1933 on the Lower East Side, and it became the city's second largest local. The union utilized photography to normalize the role of African American members withi…
In a Rugged Land: Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, and the Three Mormon Towns Collaboration, 1953–1954. By James R. Swensen
Few photographers had as contentious a relationship as Dorothea Lange and Ansel Adams. Friends and colleagues for nearly half a century, they continually sniped at one another, in public and in private. Lange made her name in the Farm Security Administration (FSA), documenting the economic devastation of the Great Depression; Adams, photographer of a sublime landscape, called the FSA “a bunch of sociologists with cameras”(Nancy Wood and Roy Stryk…
The Historian's Eye: Photography, History, and the American Present
From 2009 to 2014 Matthew Frye Jacobson crisscrossed the United States, taking thousands of photographs. He documented a wide range of issues roiling the republic: intractable racism, a yawning wealth gap, xenophobia, violence, and a media-saturated, surveillant nation. He tracked citizens’ movements challenging inequalities, and the rise of reactionary counter movements. In The Historian's Eye he publishes a selection of these photographs and ne…
Front Pages, Front Lines: Media and the Fight for Women's Suffrage
This collection follows a special volume of American Journalism devoted to the Nineteenth Amendment's centennial. Front Pages, Front Lines delves into journalism and the suffrage movement, examining mainstream press coverage and the movement's exploitation of media, primarily journalism, to represent and promote the franchise for women. Thirteen essays move from the antebellum period through to the late twentieth century; most of the chapters tre…
Photogrammar
The Journal of American History, in collaboration with the Web site History Matters: The U.S. Survey Course on the Web, http://historymatters.gmu.edu, publishes regular reviews of digital history projects. The reviews appear both in the printed journal and at History Matters. History Matters provides an annotated guide to more than one thousand projects for teaching U.S. history. The goal is to offer a gateway to the works in digital history and …
"Carol Quirke. Review of "Quitting Your Day Job: "Chauncey Hare’s Photographic Work" by Robert Slifkin
Sociology (6 works) · Art (5 works) · History (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Media studies (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Art history (4 works) · History (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Photography and Visual Culture (3 works)