"With three smart essays and an incisive selection of pictures, "American Modern" shows how the practice of documentary photography during the 1930s was more capacious and flexible than we ever thought. The opportunities to make and show pictures were everywhere, in photo books, magazine spreads, museum shows, and of course the New Deal programs. This book tells us how beloved documentarians like Abbott, Bourke-White, and Evans learned how to walk these many paths, sometimes with great delicacy and knowing, and along the ...
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"With three smart essays and an incisive selection of pictures, "American Modern" shows how the practice of documentary photography during the 1930s was more capacious and flexible than we ever thought. The opportunities to make and show pictures were everywhere, in photo books, magazine spreads, museum shows, and of course the New Deal programs. This book tells us how beloved documentarians like Abbott, Bourke-White, and Evans learned how to walk these many paths, sometimes with great delicacy and knowing, and along the way produce startling pictures. This is good stuff."--Anthony W. Lee, author of "A Shoemaker's Story" and founding editor of "Defining Moments in American Photography"
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