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Helen M. Stummer - Risking Life and Lens - 9781439914564 - V9781439914564
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Risking Life and Lens

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Description for Risking Life and Lens Hardback. Num Pages: 254 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBEJ; 3JJP; AJB; AJCR; BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887. .

For more than forty years, Helen M. Stummer has captured images depicting the dignity, humanity, and suffering of people living in conditions of poverty. Her efforts taught her to understand firsthand the resilience of people living in insufferable conditions. In her inspiring memoir, Risking Life and Lens, Stummer recounts her experiences as a socially-concerned documentary photographer whose passion for her work overcame her fears.

Stummer’s images, from the mean streets of Manhattan and Newark, New Jersey, to the back woods of Maine and the mountains of Guatemala, expose the myths of poverty and serve as a metaphor for her challenges in ... Read more

Risking Life and Lens shares Stummer’s work and educational efforts and it provides valuable insights about race, class, and social justice—issues that continue to divide the country and the world. Her work has created change in both her own life and the lives of those who view it.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
254
Condition
New
Number of Pages
254
Place of Publication
Philadelphia PA, United States
ISBN
9781439914564
SKU
V9781439914564
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About Helen M. Stummer
Helen M. Stummer is a New Jersey-based social documentary photographer and Visual Sociologist whose work is included in the collections of the Library of Congress, the International Center of Photography, Manhattan, the Museum of the City of New York, the Brooklyn Museum, and Rutgers University Libraries Special Collections in New Brunswick. She is Emerita Associate Professor of Photography and Photojournalism ... Read more

Reviews for Risking Life and Lens
"Helen M. Stummer is of that rare breed of humans who seek a personal path of enlightenment that ends up teaching us all. In this case, as a social documentary photographer who opens windows for viewing extraordinary social worlds. Worlds of real, diverse people living out everyday lives criss-crossed by realities of race, class, gender in intensely urban settings of ... Read more

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