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Picturing poverty : print culture and FSA photographs
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Picturing poverty : print culture and FSA photographs

Author: Cara A Finnegan
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press, ©2003.
Edition/Format: Book : English
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Cara A Finnegan
ISBN: 1588341186 9781588341181
OCLC Number: 50028662
Description: xxvii, 260 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents: Preface: A rhetorical history of photographs. -- Introduction: Making rural poverty visible: the Depression, the New Deal, and the Historical Section. -- Imaging poverty in the Historical Section. -- Social engineering and photographic resistance: social science rhetorics of poverty in Survey graphic. -- Intersections of art and documentary: aesthetic rhetorics of poverty in U.S. camera. -- Spectacle of the downtrodden order: popular rhetorics of poverty in Look magazine. -- Epilogue: Rhetorical circulation and the picturing of poverty.
Responsibility: Cara A. Finnegan.

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