Photography -- Social aspects -- United States

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This volume provides a concise yet comprehensive overview of photography in the United States. The book features approximately 100 iconic, as well as lesser-known images, including those from Ansel Adams, Carlton Watkins, and Diane Arbus.

From Ansel Adams to Carleton Watkins, Diane Arbus to Weegee, Richard Avedon to James VanDerZee, American photographers have recorded their vast, multicultural nation in images that, for more than a hundred years, have come to define the USA. In Photography and the USA, Mick Gidl…

"A critical overview of how Native Americans appropriated photography and integrated it into their ways of life, both as patrons who commissioned portraits and as photographers who created collections, between 1840-1940 throughout the United States and Canada"--