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American modern, documentary photography by Abbott, Evans, and Bourke-White, Sharon Corwin, Jessica May, and Terri Weissman

Label
American modern, documentary photography by Abbott, Evans, and Bourke-White, Sharon Corwin, Jessica May, and Terri Weissman
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
resource.biographical
contains biographical information
resource.governmentPublication
government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
American modern
Nature of contents
bibliographycatalogs
Responsibility statement
Sharon Corwin, Jessica May, and Terri Weissman
Sub title
documentary photography by Abbott, Evans, and Bourke-White
Summary
This volume to the exhibition of the same name, explores the reinvention of documentary photography in the 1930s, focusing on the work of three iconic figures: Berenice Abbott, Walker Evans, and Margaret Bourke-White
Table Of Contents
Berenice Abbott, Elizabeth McCausland, and the "Great Democratic Book" / Terri Weissman -- "The work of an artist": Walker Evan's American photographs / Jessica May -- Constructed documentary: Margaret Bourke-White from the steel mill to the south / Sharon Corwin
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