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Life's America : family and nation in postwar photojournalism / Wendy Kozol.

Title: Life's America : family and nation in postwar photojournalism / Wendy Kozol.
Author: Kozol, Wendy, 1958-
Publication: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1994.

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Description

xii, 218 pages : illustrations; 29 cm

Summary

"Explores the origins of the visual portrait of domesticity that has dominated American culture since World War II."--Preface. This exploration comes from the author's examination of images published in Life magazine during its heyday, the forties and fifties.

Subject

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-212) and index.

Processing Action (note)

committed to retain

Contents

Ch. 1. Documenting the Ordinary: Photographic Realism and LIFE's families -- Ch. 2. Looking at LIFE: A Historical Profile of Photojournalism -- Ch. 3. "The Kind of People Who Make Good Americans": Nationalism and LIFE's family Ideal -- Ch. 4. Public News and Private Lives: The Politics of Merging Spaces -- Ch. 5. Resisting the Domestic: News Coverage of Social Change -- Ch. 6. Conclusion.

ISBN

1566391520
9781566391528
1566392217
9781566392211

LCCN

93026030

OCLC

28421407

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library