Witness in our time : working lives of documentary photographers / Ken Light ; introduction by Kerry Tremain.

Author/creator Light, Ken
Format Book
Edition2nd ed.
Publication InfoWashington : Smithsonian Books, 2010.
Descriptionxiii, 282 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subjects

Contents Hansel Smith: the depression and the early days of Life -- Walter Rosenblum: Lewis Hine, Paul Strand, and the photo league -- Michelle Vignes: Magnum photo agency, the early years -- Wayne Miller: World War II and the family of man -- Peter Magubane: a black photographer in Apartheid South Africa -- Matt Herron: the Civil Rights movement and the Southern documentary project -- Jill Freedman: resurrection city -- Mary Ellen Mark: streetwise photographer -- Earl Dotter: the United mine workers -- Eugene Richards: Americans we -- Susan Meiselas: Central America and human rights -- Sebastiao Salgado: workers -- Graciela Iturbide: the Indigenous of Mexico -- Antonin Kratochvil: the fall of the iron curtain -- Donna Ferrato: living with the enemy, domestic violence -- Joseph Rodriguez: in the barrio -- Dayanita Singh: a truer India -- Fazal Sheikh: portrait of a refugee -- Gifford Hampshire: the environmental protection agency's project Documerica -- Peter Howe: Life magazine and Outtakes -- Colin Jacobson: Independent magazine and Reportage -- Anne Wilkes Tucker: the museum context -- Fred Ritchin: the fish are last to know about the water: the emerging digital revolution -- Rondal Partridge: Dorothea Lange in the field -- Don McCullin: Vietnam: the Battle of Hue, 1968 -- Bill Owens: suburbia and a passion for seeing his world -- Larry Fink: social graces -- David Goldblatt: once an enemy: Apartheid and the New South Africa -- Maya Goded: Tierra Negra.
Abstract "The second edition includes a new section of interviews on documentary photography in the field and an exploration of the role of photojournalism in 21st-century media."--Publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 273-277) and index.
LCCN 2010031643
ISBN9781588342980 (alk. paper)
ISBN1588342980 (alk. paper)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks TR139 .L54 2010 ✔ Available Place Hold