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Seeing America : women photographers between the wars / / Melissa A. McEuen



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Autore: McEuen Melissa A. <1961-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Seeing America : women photographers between the wars / / Melissa A. McEuen Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 2004
©2000
Edizione: Paperback edition.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (374 p.)
Disciplina: 770/.92/273
Soggetto topico: Women photographers - United States
Documentary photography - United States - History - 20th century
Photography - United States - History - 20th century
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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
Sommario/riassunto: 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
Titolo autorizzato: Seeing America  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8131-9094-0
0-8131-5841-9
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910460438203321
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