Alan Zelick Trachtenberg (March 22, 1932 – August 18, 2020) was an American historian and the Neil Gray Jr. Professor of English and professor emeritus of American Studies at
Yale University.[1]
He resided in
Hamden, Connecticut with his wife
Betty (née Glassman), pianist and college administrator, who was dean of students at
Yale College from 1987 to 2007.
Trachtenberg's landmark 1990 book, Reading American Photographs: Images as History,
Mathew Brady to
Walker Evans– A Study of American Photography from 1839 to 1938, won the
Charles C. Eldredge Prize that year.[3]
Shades of Hiawatha: Staging Indians, Making Americans, 1880-1930, Hill and Wang, 2004,
ISBN0-374-29975-7.
Distinctly American: The Photography of Wright Morris (with Ralph Lieberman) exh. cat. Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, Merrill, 2002.
ISBN1858941768.
Reading American Photographs: Images as History, Mathew Brady to Walker Evans, Hill and Wang, 1990,
ISBN0-374-52249-9.
The Incorporation of America: Culture and Society in the Gilded Age, Hill and Wang, 1982,
ISBN0-8090-5827-8.
Hart Crane, A Collection of Critical Essays. Prentice-Hall, 1982.
ISBN0133839354.
Classic Essays in Photography (editor), Leetes Island Books, 1981,
ISBN0-918172-07-1.
Brooklyn Bridge: Fact and Symbol, University Of Chicago Press, 1965,
ISBN0-226-81115-8.
^Trachtenberg, Alan Zelick. "Brooklyn Bridge, Fact and Symbol (1869-1930): A Study of An American Monument." Ph.D. diss. University of Minnesota, 1962.