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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McEuen, Melissa A., 1961- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women photographers--United States--Biography.

Women photographers.

Documentary photography--United States--History--20th century.

Documentary photography.

Photography--United States--History--20th century.

Photography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (374 p.)

Edition:

Paperback edition.

Place of Publication:

Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Seeing America explores the camera work of five women who directed their visions toward influencing social policy and cultural theory. Taken together, they visually articulated the essential ideas occupying the American consciousness in the years between the world wars.Melissa McEuen examines the work of Doris Ulmann, who made portraits of celebrated artists in urban areas and lesser-known craftspeople in rural places; Dorothea Lange, who magnified human dignity in the midst of poverty and unemployment; Marion Post Wolcott, a steadfast believer in collective strength as the antidote to social

Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Documentarian with Props: Doris Ulmann's Vision of an Ideal America; 2 Portraitist as Documentarian: Dorothea Lange's Depiction of American Individualism; 3 A Radical Vision on Film: Marion Post's Portrayal of Collective Strength; 4 Of Machines and People: Margaret Bourke-White's Isolation of Primary Components; 5 Modernism Ascendant: Berenice Abbott's Perception of the Evolving Cityscape; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780813190945

0813190940

9780813158419

0813158419

OCLC:

682123544