America and Lewis Hine: Photographs, 1904-1940 (Aperture Monograph)

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Review "Hine's images rank among the greatest camera portraits ever taken, calmly relentless in their inspection of face and pose, profoundly sympathetic."--Robert Hughes, Time magazine"Hine is a major American artist, worthy of comparison in his role as portraitist of native life with Edward Hopper, Theodore Dreiser, William Carlos Williams."--Irving Howe, The New Republic Read more About the Author Walter Rosenblum, Professor Emeritus of Photography in the Art Department, Brooklyn College, is a noted photographer whose first meeting with Lewis Hine at the Photo League developed into a warm friendship.Naomi Rosenblum is an art historian and author of A World History of Photography (New York: Abbeville Press, 1984, rev. ed. 1997) and A History of Women Photographers (New York: Abbeville Press, 1994).Alan Trachtenberg is Neil Gray Professor of English and American Studies at Yale University. He is the author of numerous works including Brooklyn Bridge: Fact and Symbol (1965); The Incorporation of America: Culture and Society in the Gilded Age (1982); and Reading American Photographs: Images as History, From Mathew Brady to Walker Evans (1989; winner of the Charles C. Eldredge Prize for outstanding scholarship in American art, 1990). In 1991 he received the International Center of Photography Writing Award. Read more

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A true "history" book.

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