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Emily Kathryn Morgan - Imaging Animal Industry, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

Imaging Animal Industry

American Meatpacking in Photography and Visual Culture

Av Emily Kathryn Morgan

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Imaging Animal Industry focuses on the visual culture of the American meat industry between 1890 and 1960. It describes how, during that period, photographs and other images helped to shape public perceptions of industrial-scale meat production. Although the meat industry today bans most photography at its facilities, in the past this was not always the case: the meat industry not only tolerated but welcomed cameras. Meatpacking companies and industry organizations regarded photographs as useful tools for creating and managing a vision of their activities, their innovations, and their contributions to the march of American economic and industrial progress.Drawing on archival collections across the American Midwest, this book relates a history of the meatpacking industry’s use of images in the early to mid-twentieth century. In the process, it reveals the key role that images, particularly photographs, have played in assisting with the rise of industrial meat production.
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Emily Kathryn Morgan is associate professor of art history at Iowa State University. She is the author of Street Life in London: Context and Commentary. She lives in Ames, Iowa.

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“Given Iowa’s increasing importance as a meat industry state, especially after the collapse a half-century ago of the Chicago meatpacking industry, it deserves the attention Morgan provides in this mixture of illustrations and text. Her expertise in visual materials informs her analysis of these resources played and play in the process stretching from producer to consumer. Those interested in labor history as well as art history will find much to appreciate. . . . Reaching far back to the earliest illustrations of meat processing in past centuries, Morgan helps a reader understand how consumers have accepted a violent industrial process filled even in current times with significant issues of health and worker safety.”—Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society

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