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Seeing America: Women Photographers between the Wars
Melissa A. McEuen
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Description for Seeing America: Women Photographers between the Wars
Paperback. Explores the camera work of five women who directed their visions toward influencing social policy and cultural theory. Doris Ulmann, Dorothea Lange, Marion Post Wolcott, Margaret Bourke-White, and Berenice Abbott. Melissa McEuen considers the prisms though which they saw American culture in the 1920s and 1930s. Num Pages: 376 pages, 54 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; AJB; HBJK; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 544.
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 ills and the best defense against future challenges; Margaret Bourke-White, ... Read more
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 ills and the best defense against future challenges; Margaret Bourke-White, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University Press of Kentucky
Condition
New
Number of Pages
376
Place of Publication
Lexington, United States
ISBN
9780813190945
SKU
V9780813190945
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Reviews for Seeing America: Women Photographers between the Wars
Opens a window on American culture between the world wars. - Publishers Weekly