Seeing America
Subtitle: Women Photographers Between the Wars
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: November 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780813121321
Subjects: Cultural studies; Photography & Photographs; Women's studies; Inter-war period, 1918-1939; Photography; Individual Photographers And Their Work; United States; Sociology; USA; Photojournalism; Women's Studies - History; Criticism; Popular Culture - General; 20th century; Biography; Documentary photography; History; Women photographers
First sentence: A FEW WEEKS BEFORE HER DEATH at age fifty-two, Doris Ulmann wrote, "Personally, I think there is always more value in doing one thing thoroughly and as well as possible than in spreading over a large area and getting just a little of many things."
Description: "Seeing America examines 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."--BOOK JACKET.