Review:
"A Staggering Revolution is a major work of synthesis and original scholarship, a close-textured history of photography in the Thirties that will change our way of thinking about its subject and about Thirties culture generally."
" "A Staggering Revolution" is a landmark revision of our thinking about American photography in the 1930s. A large, meticulous, and passionate book." --William Stott, author of "Documentary Expression and Thirties America" and "Walker Evans: Photographs from the “ Let Us Now Praise Famous Men” Project"
“ "A Staggering Revolution" tells an extraordinary story of the ‘ rebirth, ’ the flowering, and the cultural legitimation of photography in America, both as art and ‘ popular preoccupation, ’ in the 1930s." — Alan Trachtenberg, Neil Gray Professor Emeritus of English and American Studies, Yale University
""A Staggering Revolution" is a landmark revision of our thinking about American photography in the 1930s. A large, meticulous, and passionate book."--William Stott, author of "Documentary Expression and Thirties America" and "Walker Evans: Photographs from the "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men" Project"
""A Staggering Revolution" tells an extraordinary story of the 'rebirth, ' the flowering, and the cultural legitimation of photography in America, both as art and 'popular preoccupation, ' in the 1930s." --Alan Trachtenberg, Neil Gray Professor Emeritus of English and American Studies, Yale University
"Raeburn skillfully treats the role of the FSA photography project in the contexts of art. In the process he offers the most nuanced, perceptive discussion of the much-misunderstood role of FSA project chief Roy Emerson Stryker that I have ever read. Even for those of us well-schooled in the history and practices of the FSA, these chapters offer something new and valuable. . . . Raeburn challenges readers to look beyond received wisdom about the visual culture of the 1930s and explore it anew for themselves."--"American Historical Review"
"A sweeping cultural history of 1930s photography and a passionate argument that photographs are powerful pieces of historical evidence and should not be treated as merely illustrations."--"Winterthur"" Portfolio "
About the Author:
John Raeburn is a professor of American studies and English at the University of Iowa. He is the author of Fame Became of Him: Hemingway as Public Writer and the editor (with Richard Glatzer) of Frank Capra: The Man and His Films.
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