American Photography and the American Dream

Name: American Photography and the American Dream
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ISBN: 9780807843086

ISBN-10: 0807843083

ISBN-13: 9780807843086

Edition: 1991

Authors: James Guimond, Alan Trachtenberg

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James Guimond's powerful study reveals how documentary photographers have expressed or contested the idea of the American Dream throughout the twentieth century. In Guimond's formulation issues like growth, equality, and national identity came under the rubric of the Dream as it has been used to measure how well the nation is living up to its social and political ideals. A pathbreaking book,American Photography and the American Dreamexamines the most important photographers and developments in the documentary genre during this century. It encompasses the reform-era images of Francis Benjamin Johnston and Lewis Hine; the work of Farm Security Administration (FSA) photographers like Walker…

Book details

List price: $69.00
Copyright year: 1991
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 5/27/1991
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 355
Size: 7.00" wide x 10.00" long x 0.74" tall
Weight: 1.936
Language: English

James Guimond is professor of English and American studies and chair of the English department at Rider College.



Foreword


Acknowledgments



Dreams and Documents



Frances Johnston's Hampton Album a White Dream for Black People



Lewis Hine and American Industrialism



The Signs of Hard Times



The American Way of Life at Home and Abroad



The Great American Wasteland



After the Fall


Epilogue


Notes


Bibliography


Index