A Staggering Revolution: A Cultural History of Thirties Photography

Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2006. xx, 370 pages, illustrations; 27 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. "During the 1930s, the world of photography was unsettled, exciting, and boisterous. This title recreates the energy of the era by surveying photography's variety of innovation, exploring the aesthetic and cultural achievements of its leading figures, and mapping the paths their pictures blazed public's imagination. / John Raeburn is a professor of American studies and English at the University of Iowa. He is the author of Fame Became of Him: Hemingway as Public Writer and the editor (with Richard Glatzer) of Frank Capra: The Man and His Films." - Publisher. CONTENTS: The rebirth of photography in the thirties; Disestablishing Stieglitz; Group f.64 and the problem of California photography; An eastern beachhead; Edward Steichen and celebrity photography; MoMA's big top show; Camera periodicals and the popular audience; Culture morphology in Berenice Abbott's New York; Farm Security Administration photography and the dilemmas of art; Farm Security Administration photography in the aura of art; The nation's newsstands; The photo league, Lewis Hine, and the Harlem document; Seeing California with Edward Weston; Photography at high tide.. Paperback. Fine. 4to.