With an emphasis on photographic works that offer new perspectives on the history of American social documentary, this book considers a history of politically e

The documentary style that dominates American photography had its origins in the social reform publicity campaigns of the turn of the century. This study traces

Dorothea Lange, Documentary Photography, and Twentieth-Century America charts the life of Dorothea Lange (1895–1965), whose life was radically altered by the

"Accompanies the exhibition Subjective Objective: A Century of Social Photography organized by the Zimmerli Art Museum Rutgers, The State University of New Jers