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Re-viewing Documentary

by Beverly W. Brannan , Laura Katzman

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This 2014 printing features a laminated cover and french flaps.

Re-viewing Documentary, the companion volume to the exhibition of the same name, examines the work of Louise Rosskam (1910-2003), an elusive pioneer of the golden age of American documentary photography from the 1930s through the 1960s. Often in collaboration with her better-known husband, Edwin (1903-1985), Rosskam photographed for the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information, the U.S. Treasury Department, the Standard Oil Company, the Office of Information for Puerto Rico, and the New Jersey Department of Education. To government, corporate, and commercial projects she brought a vision infused with compassion, humor, and far-reaching social purpose.

Re-viewing Documentary is the first study to assess Louise Rosskam's contributions to the Rosskam team in the context of the larger field of social reform photography. It addresses the boundaries she traversed in negotiating her role in a profession in which women were making dynamic strides. The authors reveal how Rosskam embraced the documentary impulse of the age, broadened the mass media uses of documentary, and even recognized the mode's limitations. The book highlights the extraordinary photographs she and Edwin created in Puerto Rico as it developed from an impoverished U.S. possession to an industrialized commonwealth. In doing so, they helped expand the perimeters--geographic and ideological--of U.S. documentary practice.

Genre: Art / American / General (fancy, right?)

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