A staggering revolution : a cultural history of thirties photography /

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Author / Creator:Raeburn, John, 1941-
Imprint:Chicago : University of Illinois Press, c2006.
Description:xx, 370 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5933063
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ISBN:9780252030840 (cloth : alk. paper)
0252030842 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780252073229 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0252073223 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-359) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • A calendar of thirties photography
  • 1. The rebirth of photography in the thirties
  • 2. Disestablishing Stieglitz
  • 3. Group f.64 and the problem of California photography
  • 4. An eastern beachhead
  • 5. Edward Steichen and celebrity photography
  • 6. MoMA's "big top" show
  • 7. Camera periodicals and the popular audience
  • 8. Culture morphology in Berenice Abbott's New York
  • 9. Farm Security Administration photography and the dilemmas of art
  • 10. Farm Security Administration photography in the aura of art
  • 11. The nation's newsstands
  • 12. The photo league, Lewis Hine, and the Harlem document
  • 13. Seeing California with Edward Weston
  • 14. Photography at high tide
  • Afterword : "the cultural establishment of photography"