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Author Allred, Jeff, 1972-

Title American modernism and depression documentary / Jeff Allred
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 272 pages) : illustrations
Contents Introduction: Plausible fictions of the real -- From 'culture' to 'cultural work': literature and labor between the wars -- The road to somewhere: locating knowledge in Erskine Caldwell and Margaret Bourke-White's You have seen their faces (1937) -- Moving violations: stasis and mobility in James Agee's and Walker Evans's Let us now praise famous men (1941) -- From eye to we: Richard Wright's 12 million black voices, documentary, and pedagogy -- 'We Americans': Henry Luce, life, and the mind-guided camera -- Epilogue: depression documentary and the knot of history
Summary Photos filled with the forlorn faces of hungry and impoverished Americans that came to characterize the desolation of the Great Depression are among the best known artworks of the twentieth century. Captured by the camera's eye, these stark depictions of suffering became iconic markers of a formative period in U.S. history. Although there has been an ample amount of critical inquiry on Depression-era photographs, the bulk of scholarship treats them as isolated art objects. And yet they were often joined together with evocative writing in a genre that flourished amid the period, the documentary
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Caldwell, Erskine, 1903-1987. You have seen their faces
Agee, James, 1909-1955. Let us now praise famous men
Wright, Richard, 1908-1960. 12 million black voices.
SUBJECT 12 million black voices (Wright, Richard) fast
Subject American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Documentary photography -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Modernism (Literature) -- United States
Literature and photography -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Photography -- Political aspects -- United States
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
American literature
Documentary photography
Literature and photography
Modernism (Literature)
Photography -- Political aspects
United States
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780199714766
0199714762
9780195335682
0195335686