Seeing America : women photographers between the wars / Melissa A. McEuen.

In the 1920s and '30s photography transformed and dominated the U.S. cultural landscape. Seeing America examines the camera work of five women who contributed to the growing dependence of Americans upon visual images for information about the world around them. Together, these women visually ar...

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Main Author: McEuen, Melissa A., 1961-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, [2000]
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Table of Contents:
  • Documentarian with props : Doris Ulmann's vision of an ideal America
  • Portraitist as documentarian : Dorothea Lange's depiction of American individualism
  • A radical vision on film : Marion Post's portrayal of collective strength
  • Of machines and people : Margaret Bourke-White's isolation of primary components
  • Modernism ascendant : Berenice Abbott's perception of the evolving cityscape.