The Purloined Landscape: Photography and Power in the American West
Resource type
Journal article
Creator (person)
Beck, John
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