Exhilaration and anxiety, the yearning for community and the quest for identity: these shared, contradictory feelings course through Outside the Gates of Eden, Peter Bacon Hales’s ambitious and intoxicating new history of America from the atomic age to the virtual age. Born under the shadow of the bomb, with little security but the cold comfort of duck-and-cover, the postwar generations lived through―and led―some of the most momentous changes in all of American history. Hales explores those decades through perceptive accounts of a succession of resonant moments, spaces, and artifacts of everyday life―drawing unexpected connections and tracing the intertwined undercurrents of promise and peril. From sharp analyses of newsreels of the first atomic bomb tests and the invention of a new ideal American life in Levittown; from the music emerging from the Brill Building and the Beach Boys, and a brilliant account of Bob Dylan’s transformations; from the painful failures of communes and the breathtaking utopian potential of the early days of the digital age, Hales reveals a nation, and a dream, in transition, as a new generation began to make its mark on the world it was inheriting. Full of richly drawn set-pieces and countless stories of unforgettable moments, Outside the Gates of Eden is the most comprehensive account yet of the baby boomers, their parents, and their children, as seen through the places they built, the music and movies and shows they loved, and the battles they fought to define their nation, their culture, and their place in what remains a fragile and dangerous world.

Outside the Gates of Eden: The Dream of America from Hiroshima to Now

Arts & Photography

Hales, Peter Bacon

Music

University of Chicago Press

London, Macdonald, 1984, 4to brossura con copertina illustrata, pp. (16) con una tavola forografica in antiporta e 25 fotografie a piena pagina fuori testo

William Henry Jackson (Masters of Photography)

Photography & Video

Salem House Pub.

First published in 1984, Silver Cities rapidly became a classic in the history of photography and in the then-nascent field of visual culture studies. Now this vastly expanded edition presents a lively interdisciplinary history of the first century of urban photography in America. Silver Cities envisions the transformation of American civilization via mass-produced and mass-disseminated photography of cities made between 1839 and the onset of World War II. 
In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, urban photographers were visual explorers of the rapidly evolving urban sphere, but their understanding of that environment was defined by the prevailing cultural prejudices. To examine their visual products is to educate ourselves in the deepest concerns of American culture in the century of its transformation from agrarian youth to urbane maturity.
Readers new to the book will find a richly illustrated cultural history of American photography, with familiar names and newly discovered figures. Those familiar with the original will find the new edition fresh and surprising, exploring issues of race, gender, and ethnic identity and analyzing the ways media contribute to the power of the dominant culture. Longer and broader in its scope, with a vastly expanded collection of illustrations, the new edition surveys cities small and large, delves deeper into the twentieth century, and gives names to once-anonymous contributors and locations to once-mysterious places.
 About the first edition: "A fascinating overview of nineteenth-century urban photography."--Gunther Barth, American Historical Review

Silver Cities: Photographing American Urbanization, 1839-1939, Revised and Expanded Edition

University of New Mexico Press

From the publisher: "Focusing on five American cities -- San Francisco, Denver, Chicago, Boston and New York -- during different stages of growth, this profusely illustrated book surveys the changing urban scene."

Silver Cities: The Photography of American Urbanization, 1839-1915 (American Civilization)

Temple Univ Pr

Examines the landscape photographs of Jackson, discusses how they shaped public attitudes toward the American wilderness, and describes Jackson's work for the U.S. Geological and Geographic Survey of the Territories

William Henry Jackson and the Transformation of the American Landscape

Jackson, William Henry

Book by Vine, Naomi, Hales, Peter Bacon

A Certain Slant of Light: The Contemporary American Landscape

Vine, Naomi

Dayton Art Institute

Reference

Dayton Art Inst

In this illustrated study, Peter Hales examines the landscape photographer William Henry Jackson's effect on the ways Americans viewed their land and on the myths that sustain American culture.

Individual Artists

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Outside the Gates of Eden: The Dream of America from Hiroshima to Now

William Henry Jackson (Masters of Photography)

Silver Cities: Photographing American Urbanization, 1839-1939, Revised and Expanded Edition

Silver Cities: The Photography of American Urbanization, 1839-1915 (American Civilization)

William Henry Jackson and the Transformation of the American Landscape

A Certain Slant of Light: The Contemporary American Landscape

William Henry Jackson and the Transformation of the American Landscape