Old Fields: Photography, Glamour, and Fantasy Landscape

Glamour subverts convention. Models, images, and even landscapes can skew ordinary ways of seeing when viewed through the lens of photography, suggesting new worlds imbued with fantasy, mystery, sexuality, and tension.

In Old Fields, John Stilgoe—one of the most original observers of his time—offers a poetic and controversial exploration of the generations—long effort to portray glamour. Fusing three forces in contemporary American culture—amateur photography after 1880; the rise of glamour ...