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Author Bonnell, Françoise Barnes, 1962-

Title Capturing the Women's Army Corps : the World War II photographs of Captain Charlotte T. McGraw / Françoise Barnes Bonnell and Ronald Kevin Bullis ; foreword by Brigadier General Gwen Bingham
Published Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (89 pages) : black and white illustrations
Contents Brief history of the Women's Army Corps in World War II -- Captain McGraw's career -- Photographic art of the 1930s and 1940s -- The impact of McGraw's photos on the home front -- Captain McGraw's work. Army women "free a man to fight" ; Modern and ancient worlds meet in war ; People in context : the art of the portrait ; Ordinary life during war ; Photographs of compassion and assistance ; Capturing images of the damage to the landscape -- Conclusion : reflections on her work -- Appendix : Women's Army Auxiliary Corps and Women's Army Corps military ranks
Summary The photographs taken by Charlotte T. McGraw, the official Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) photographer during World War II, offer a comprehensive visual record of the approximately 140,000 women who served in the U.S. Army during the war. This collection of 150 of McGraw's photos includes pictures made in Africa, in England at the headquarters of the European Theater of Operations, in Asia and the Pacific, and in military hospitals in the United States. A former Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer camera operator and the only assigned WAAC photographer, McGraw personally handled the release of 73,660 photos used extensively for recruiting posters and publicity. Her photographs were published in the New York Times, New York Herald Tribune, and used by the Associated Press and the United Press, as well as in recruiting posters, handouts and informational pamphlets, and in the most popular magazines of the era such as Time, Colliers, Women's Home Companion, Parade, Saturday Evening Post, and Mademoiselle. -- Provided by publisher
Notes Print version record
Subject McGraw, Charlotte T., 1915-
SUBJECT McGraw, Charlotte T., 1915- fast
Subject United States. Army. Women's Army Corps -- Pictorial works
United States. Army. Women's Army Corps -- History
United States. Army -- Photographers -- Biography
SUBJECT United States. Army fast
United States. Army. Women's Army Corps fast
Subject Women photographers -- United States -- Biography
War photographers -- United States -- Biography
World War, 1939-1945 -- Photography.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- United States
HISTORY -- Military -- World War II.
Armed Forces -- Photographers
Photography
War photographers
Women
Women photographers
United States
Genre/Form dissertations.
Biographies
History
Pictorial works
Academic theses.
Biographies.
Thèses et écrits académiques.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
Author Bullis, Ronald K.
McGraw, Charlotte T., 1915-
ISBN 9780826353405
0826353401
9780826353412
082635341X
1299700543
9781299700543