03050nam 2200637 450 991078737900332120200520144314.00-8131-9094-00-8131-5841-9(CKB)3710000000334119(EBL)1915282(SSID)ssj0001435928(PQKBManifestationID)12012554(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001435928(PQKBWorkID)11434554(PQKB)11138879(OCoLC)682123544(MdBmJHUP)muse44160(Au-PeEL)EBL1915282(CaPaEBR)ebr11009734(CaONFJC)MIL691108(OCoLC)900344658(MiAaPQ)EBC1915282(EXLCZ)99371000000033411920150205h20042000 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrSeeing America women photographers between the wars /Melissa A. McEuenPaperback edition.Lexington, Kentucky :The University Press of Kentucky,2004.©20001 online resource (374 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-322-59826-6 0-8131-2132-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 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 socialWomen photographersUnited StatesBiographyDocumentary photographyUnited StatesHistory20th centuryPhotographyUnited StatesHistory20th centuryWomen photographersDocumentary photographyHistoryPhotographyHistory770/.92/273McEuen Melissa A.1961-1484393MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910787379003321Seeing America3704609UNINA