A staggering revolution : a cultural history of thirties photography

A staggering revolution : a cultural history of thirties photography / John Raeburn.

During the 1930s, the world of photography was unsettled, exciting, and boisterous. John Raeburn's A Staggering Revolution recreates the energy of the era by surveying photography's rich variety of innovation, exploring the aesthetic and cultural achievements of its leading figures, and ma...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Raeburn, John
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Illinois Press, [2006]
Subjects:
Photography, Artistic.
art photography.
PHOTOGRAPHY > Criticism.
PHOTOGRAPHY > History.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
Photography, Artistic
United States > Pictorial works.
United States
Electronic books.
Pictorial works
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Table of Contents:
  • The rebirth of photography in the thirties
  • Disestablishing Stieglitz
  • Group f.64 and the problem of California photography
  • An eastern beachhead
  • Edward Steichen and celebrity photography
  • MoMA's big top show
  • Camera periodicals and the popular audience
  • Culture morphology in Berenice Abbott's New York
  • Farm Security Administration photography and the dilemmas of art
  • Farm Security Administration photography in the aura of art
  • The nation's newsstands
  • The photo league, Lewis Hine, and the Harlem document
  • Seeing California with Edward Weston
  • Photography at high tide.

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