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Alan Trachtenberg Death | Alan Trachtenberg Dead – Obituary | Passed Away

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Alan Trachtenberg Death – Dead | Passed Away – Obituary

Alan Trachtenberg Death – Dead: A great loss was made known to InsideEko. As friends and families of the deceased are mourning the passing of their loved and cherished Alan Trachtenberg.

Having heard about this great loss, the family of this individual is passing through pains, mourning the unexpected passing of their beloved.

This departure was confirmed through social media posts made by Twitter users who pour out tributes, and condolences to the family of the deceased.

Very sad to hear about the passing of Alan Trachtenberg, a Historian of Photography from Philly.

His work affected me deeply as a historian, but more importantly, his scholarly work inspired me to become a photographer.

Sad to hear of Alan Trachtenberg’s passing. He leaves us with so many essential texts for the history of photography, including his edited Classic Essays on Photography, which my students will be reading this semester.

We are so sorry to hear of the passing of Alan Trachtenberg, whose ground-breaking work shaped American Studies and Visual Studies in such vital, ongoing ways. He will be dearly missed, and our thoughts go out to his family and friends at this hard time.

Sadly, we’ve lost two great historians this week. Bill Freund, whose books & essays on African & South African history shaped the field. And now Alan Trachtenberg, whose book, Reading American Photographs, is a genuine & essential classic.

I’m very sorry to have to report that Alan Trachtenberg died yesterday.

I only met him a few times, and heard him lecture once. A remarkably creative thinker and scholar.

Sending condolences to his loved ones.

R. I. P. Alan Trachtenberg

“What Alan Trachtenberg taught us is that the study of history should not be confined to what the written word can convey or what the reader’s mind can absorb but should also include what the eye can see.”
~ Kai Erikson

Another giant lost to the American Studies community. Alan Trachtenberg (1932-2020) showed us how to read the world of American images in ways that rewrote the political, social and economic boundaries of our times. Our condolences to his family & friends

RIP, Alan Trachtenberg.

“The eyes gaze after, naturally rapt; the antithetical condition is to cipher & count, to apply the calculus of ownership to an incalculable act of love. Rapt attention, then, stands opposite conventional forms of possession, ownership, and property.”

We’re sad to report that 1968-69 CASBS fellow Alan Trachtenberg has passed.

[H]is writings demonstrated how photographs, literary works, and other cultural objects illuminate the world, and frame our national identity.”

In memoriam

I am so sad to hear this. Trachtenberg’s scholarship had a huge impact on my research and approach to writing my dissertation. RIP

Alan Trachtenberg was a multi-faceted scholar of history & photography. His book Shades of Hiawatha really opened my mind to a past that had been mostly hidden.

We are still working on getting more details about the death, as family statement on the death is yet to be released.

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