Brooklyn Bridge: Fact and Symbol

by Alan Trachtenberg

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226811158
• ISBN13: 9780226811154
• Release Date: July 1979
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"