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Rice, Mark. "Reading the Pictured City: History, Nostalgia and the National Endowment for the Arts Photography Surveys, 1976-1981," American Studies, University of Hawaii, Manoa, December 1999.
This dissertation provides a close examination of eight of the seventy Photography Surveys the NEA provided grants for from 1976 to 1981. These surveys examined and recorded cities which were undergoing significant transformations. During the 1970s many people were proclaiming the death of the American city, while others sought to find ways to revitalize the country’s urban environments through public works projects and redevelopment activities that were the subject of many of the Photography Surveys. A common theme found in the NEA Photography Surveys was that local cultures were being displaced by a homogenized mass culture. Thus, many of the surveys sought to record what was seen as the last vestiges of distinctly local culture. This dissertation examines various approaches to using photography to represent place and history - from the two surveys that used historical photographs to preserve a “suitable past” for Durham, NC and Venice, CA, through the efforts to act as “historians of the present” in Boston, to the representation of Los Angeles as a “postmodern” urban environment.
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