American photography and the American dream / James Guimond.

Main entry:

Guimond, James.

Title & Author:

American photography and the American dream / James Guimond.

Publication:

Description:

ix, 341 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Series:

Cultural studies of the United States

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-335) and index.
Dreams and documents -- Frances Johnston's "Hampton album" : a white dream for black people -- Lewis Hine and American industrialism -- The signs of hard times -- The American way of life at home and abroad -- The American wasteland -- After the fall.
Current Copyright Fee: GBP8.84 0.

Summary:

"Examines the most important photographers and developments in the documentary genre during this century. It encompasses the reform-era images of Francis Benjamin Johnston and Lewis Hine; the work of Farm Security Administration (FSA) photographers like Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange during both the 1930s and 1940s after the FSA photography unit broke up; the American-Way-of-Life pictures published by Life, Look, and the United States Information Agency during the 1940s and 1950s; the iconoclastic images of William Klein, Diane Arbus, and Robert Frank; and the work of four photographers of the 1970s and 1980s: Bill Owens, Chauncey Hare, Susan Meiselas, and Michael Williamson. Guimond pays close attention to the specific historical circumstances in which the pictures were made, to the roles the photographers played in making their images, to their intentions, stated and unstated, and to the original contexts in which the images were published or exhibited. These images, he shows, are not merely pictures on museum walls but revelations that can help us understand how we as Americans have seen ourselves, one another, and the world around us."--Back cover.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents

ISBN:

0807819468 (alk. paper)
9780807819463 (alk. paper)
0807843083 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780807843086 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Documentary photography United States History 20th century.
Photographie documentaire États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle.
Documentary photography.
American dream
Dokumentarfotografie
Fotografie
Gesellschaft
Maatschappij.
Fotografia.
United States.
USA
Verenigde Staten.
Documentary photography History 20th century United States

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Cultural studies of the United States.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 76790
Call No.: ID:92-B727
Status: Available

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