Seeing America: Women Photographers Between the Wars

by Melissa A. McEuen

Book Overview

" Winner of the Emily Toth Award given by the Women's Caucus of the Popular Culture Association for the year's best feminist study of popular culture 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813190940
• ISBN13: 9780813190945
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 8.7"

Customer Reviews

Photographers' lives

This careful and informative book grew from the author's dissertation on visual imagery and photography. The biographies of the photographers are examined fully, and in their social, political, and historical contexts. Unfortunately, only a dozen or so photographs by each artist is included. One yearns for the images! The narrative is careful, conscientious, and of value to anyone with an interest in the lives and words of these important photographers. The book would have been greatly improved by the inclusion - likely prohibitively expensive to the publisher, an academic press - of many more examples from the subjects' life's work: photography.