Item Detail
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30363
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English
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UTAH : 800 : Christine Armbruster's Photo-Essay and the Continuing Documentation of Small-Town Utah
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Utah Historical Quarterly
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Fall 2018
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86
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4
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Salt Lake City, UT
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University of Illinois Press
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350-365
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Utah : 800 represents an important update on the photographic documentation of rural Utah. Moreover, it deserves to be seen in connection to the work of Dorothea Lange and other photographers who visited and keenly recorded the unique qualities and characteristics of small towns in Utah. The observations captured by the camera relate strongly to what Howard Bahr calls the Mormon village studies. Nineteenth-century ethnographers visiting Utah Territory and mid-twentieth century academics like Lowry Nelson, Edwin Banfield, and Thomas F. O'Dea probed, studied, and wrote about these places. This essay, which is designed to accompany the print and online exhibition of Armbruster's photographs, seeks to examine her work and to situate it in context. It examines her influences and how her sympathetic photographs of Utah continue an ongoing dialogue of what makes these places unique and of interest to outsiders. Building on the work of others, Armbruster's documentation offers a new and refined sensibility. Her photographs, therefore, provide an opportunity to see these towns and the ways in which their inhabitants live and continue to change.
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