A Staggering Revolution A Cultural History of Thirties Photography 1st Edition by John Raeburn ISBN 0252073223 978-0252073229

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ISBN 10: 0252073223

ISBN 13: 978-0252073229 

Author: John Raeburn

During the 1930s, the world of photography was unsettled, exciting, and boisterous. John Raeburn’s A Staggering Revolution recreates the energy of the era by surveying photography’s rich variety of innovation, exploring the aesthetic and cultural achievements of its leading figures, and mapping the paths their pictures blazed public’s imagination.

While other studies of thirties photography have concentrated on the documentary work of the Farm Security Administration (FSA), no previous book has considered it alongside so many of the decade’s other important photographic projects. A Staggering Revolution includes individual chapters on Edward Steichen’s celebrity portraiture; Berenice Abbott’s Changing New York project; the Photo League’s ethnography of Harlem; and Edward Weston’s western landscapes, made under the auspices of the first Guggenheim Fellowship awarded to a photographer. It also examines Margaret Bourke-White’s industrial and documentary pictures, the collective undertakings by California’s Group f.64, and the fashion magazine specialists, as well as the activities of the FSA and the Photo League.

Table of contents:

1. The Rebirth of Photography in the Thirties

2. Disestablishing Stieglitz

3. Group f.64 and the Problem of California Photography

4. An Eastern Beachhead

5. Edward Steichen and Celebrity Photography

6. MoMA’s “Big Top” Show

7. Camera Periodicals and the Popular Audience

8. Culture Morphology in Berenice Abbott’s New York

9. Farm Security Administration Photography and the Dilemmas of Art

10. Farm Security Administration Photography in the Aura of Art

11. The Nation’s Newsstands

12. The Photo League, Lewis Hine, and the Harlem Document

13. Seeing California with Edward Weston

14. Photography at High Tide

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