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Shloss, Carol (Author); James, Henry; Agee, James; Evans, Walker; Mailer, Norman & Other Subjects : Invisible Light: Photography And The American Writer 1840-1940

Oxford University Press, New York City, NY, 1987

ISBN 0195038932

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 308 pages. Book-length study on subject. One of the most important books on the impact of photography on American literature in our time. Review Copy. Review Material laid-in. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only by a University Press. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Carol Shloss' "Invisible Light: Photography And The American Writer 1840-1940". The single best account on photography's undeniable influence on modern American literature. "Explores the links between Hawthorne and the daguerreotype; Henry James and Alvin Langdon Coburn; Theodore Dreiser, Alfred Stieglitz, and Jacob Riis; John Dos Passos and Soviet photography; James Agee and Walker Evans; John Steinbeck and Dorothea Lange; and Norman Mailer and World War Two photography, notably Robert Capa and Margaret Bourke-White. Reveals in penetrating detail the values that underpin literature and photography" (Publisher's blurb). If this brilliant study is about one theme (instead of its intertwined two), it is summed up in one thoughtful line in the book, incontestable and cannot be improved upon: "Art and politics are of the same metaphysical substance" (Carol Shloss). The only other book of comparable (though not identical) interest that we know of is Gore Vidal's "Screening History" (1992), which discusses the impact of the visual image, with emphasis on cinema, on his entire lifework. An absolute "must-have" title for Carol Shloss collectors. This is a Review Copy. The Review Slip is laid-in. This title is a contemporary classic. As far as we know, this is the only Review Copy of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare copy thus. Lavishly illustrated with 40 plates. One of the most brilliant literary-cum-photography critic/scholars of our time. A fine copy. . ISBN 0195038932.

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