| Edition |
Paperback edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource (374 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Women photographers -- United States -- Biography.
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Women photographers. |
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United States. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Subject |
Documentary photography -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Documentary photography. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Photography -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Photography. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: McEuen, Melissa A., 1961- Seeing America : women photographers between the wars. Paperback edition. Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 2004, ©2000 xi, 360 pages 9780813121321 |
| ISBN |
9780813158419 (e-book) |
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0813158419 (e-book) |
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9780813121321 |
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