American Photography and the American Dream

by James Guimond

Book Overview

James Guimond's powerful study reveals how documentary photographers have expressed or contested the idea of the American Dream throughout the twentieth century. In Guimond's formulation issues like growth, equality, and national identity came under the rubric of the Dream as it has been used to measure how well the nation is living up to its social and political ideals.

A pathbreaking book, American Photography and the American Dream...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807843083
• ISBN13: 9780807843086
• Release Date: May 1991
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 355 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.8" x 9.9"