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Making Photography Matter : A Viewer's History from the Civil War to the Great Depression.

Finnegan, Cara A.

Making Photography Matter : A Viewer's History from the Civil War to the Great Depression. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (257 pages)

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Viewers Reading Photographs -- 1. The Presence of Unknown Soldiers and Imaginary Spirits: Viewing National Grief and Trauma in the -- 2. Recognizing Lincoln: Portrait Photography and the Physiognomy of National Character -- 3. Appropriating the Healthy Child: The Child That Toileth Not and Progressive Era Child Labor Photo -- 4. Managing the Magnitude of the Great Depression: Viewers Respond to FSA Photography -- Conclusion: Photography's Viewers, Photography's Histories -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.

9780252097317


Documentary photography--United States--History--20th century.
Documentary photography--United States--History--19th century.
Photography--Social aspects--United States.


Electronic books.

TR23

770.9/034

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