The Purloined Landscape: Photography and Power in the American West
Resource type
Journal article
Creator (person)
Date published
2014
Abstract
John Beck argues that Edgar Allan Poe’s story ‘The Purloined Letter’ (1844) about a secret hidden in plain sight offers insights into the relationship between Western US landscape photography and the restructuring of the terrain by military-industrial interests after the Second World War.
Journal title
Tate Papers
Issue
21
Publisher
Tate
Place of publication
UK
ISSN
1753-9854
Rights statement
In Copyright
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0