Symbols of Ideal Life
Social Documentary Photography in America 1890-1950
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11087757 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Charles S Suchar (corresponding author), Maren Stange |
| Year | 1990 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 276 |
| Publication date | 1990-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0094-3061 • E-ISSN: 1939-8638 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2072619 |
| OpenAlex | W2325069011 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 29 |
The documentary style that dominates American photography had its origins in the social reform publicity campaigns of the turn of the century. This book traces the history of this genre and its main participants, including Jacob Riis, Lewis Hine, Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Ben Shahn, and Russell Lee
Art · Geography · Ideal (ethics · Photography · Political science · Social life · Social science · Sociology · Visual arts · History · Law · Literature, Film, and Journalism Analysis · Photographic and Visual Arts · Photography and Visual Culture
On documentary style
They all believe they are undiscovered Mary Pickfords
Social Reform, Social Surveys, and the Discovery of the Modern City
Documenting America
Portraits of Working Women
Revolutionary Spaces
Visualizing “the people”
Economics for the Masses
The doorstep portrait
The average child
Developing selves
Photographing the Places of Citizenship
Anne Lesme, Photographier l'enfant pour changer la société, États-Unis, 1888-1941
Photography and the Discipline of American Studies
"Illusion Complete Within Itself"
From ‘the horse in motion’ to ‘man in motion’
Towards neuroscientific management? Geometric chronophotography and the thin-slicing of the labouring body
Invisible Cities, Visible Cinema
Facing the Fact
A shop is not a home
The Hair in the Gate
Melodrama, Realism, and Race
A spectator of life-A reverential, enthusiastic, emotional spectator
The Critical Eye
The Labors of Looking
Rewriting the Ghetto
The Testifying Eye
Sport and Spectatorship as Everyday Ritual in Ben Shahn's Painting and Photography
Picturing Preservation and Renewal
| Unique citing works | 29 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,81 |
| Citation span | 1990 - 2022 (33) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 26 |