{"product_id":"a-staggering-revolution-9780252073229","title":"A Staggering Revolution","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOffering analysis of the sociology of photography's art world and its galleries and exhibitions, this book demonstrates the importance of the venues created by impresarios and others that proved essential to photography's extraordinary dissemination.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A brilliant sociological mapping of its subject that is nuanced, far-reaching and exhaustively researched\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Art Book\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\" \u003ci\u003eA Staggering Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e will create a renaissance in how scholars and students think about how photography arose as a democratic art form. Raeburn's insights regarding photography's revolution in the 1930s can also shed light on the current revolution in digital media.\"--\u003ci\u003eH-Net Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\"Raeburn skillfully treats the role of the FSA photography project in the contexts of art. In the process he offers the most nuanced, perceptive discussion of the much-misunderstood role of FSA project chief Roy Emerson Stryker that I have ever read. Even for those of us well-schooled in the history and practices of the FSA, these chapters offer something new and valuable. . . . Raeburn challenges readers to look beyond received wisdom about the visual culture of the 1930s and explore it anew for themselves.\"--\u003ci\u003eAmerican Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A sweeping cultural history of 1930s photography and a passionate argument that photographs are powerful pieces of historical evidence and should not be treated as merely illustrations.\"--\u003ci\u003eWinterthur Portfolio\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eA Staggering Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e is a major work of synthesis and original scholarship, a close-textured history of photography in the Thirties that will change our way of thinking about its subject and about Thirties culture generally.\"--Miles Orvell, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Real Thing: Imitation and Authenticity in American Culture and of American Photography\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A landmark revision of our thinking about American photography in the 1930s. A large, meticulous, and passionate book.\"--William Stott, author of \u003ci\u003eDocumentary Expression and Thirties America\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWalker Evans: Photographs from the 'Let Us Now Praise Famous Men' Project\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Tells an extraordinary story of the 'rebirth,' the flowering, and the cultural legitimation of photography in America, both as art and 'popular preoccupation,' in the 1930s. . . . A many-layered narrative, beautifully balanced and indescribably rich.\"--Alan Trachtenberg, Neil Gray Professor Emeritus of English and American Studies, Yale University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface   ix\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments   xv\u003cbr\u003e A Calendar of Thirties Photography   xvii\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Rebirth of Photography in the Thirties   1\u003cbr\u003e 2. Disestablishing Stieglitz   19\u003cbr\u003e 3. Group f.64 and the Problem of California Photography   30\u003cbr\u003e 4. An Eastern Beachhead   48\u003cbr\u003e 5. Edward Steichen and Celebrity Photography   61\u003cbr\u003e 6. MoMA's \"Big Top\" Show   80\u003cbr\u003e 7. Camera Periodicals and the Popular Audience   93\u003cbr\u003e 8. Culture Morphology in Berenice Abbott's New York   114\u003cbr\u003e 9. Farm Security Administration Photography and the Dilemmas of Art   143\u003cbr\u003e 10. Farm Security Administration Photography in the Aura of Art   162\u003cbr\u003e 11. The Nation's Newsstands   194\u003cbr\u003e 12. The Photo League, Lewis Hine, and the Harlem Document   219\u003cbr\u003e 13. Seeing California with Edward Weston   246\u003cbr\u003e 14. Photography at High Tide   276\u003cbr\u003e Afterword: \"The Cultural Establishment of Photography\"   293\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Notes   303\u003cbr\u003e Index   361\u003cbr\u003e Photographs follow page 302","brand":"University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400477024599,"sku":"9780252073229","price":27.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780252073229.jpg?v=1730470782","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-staggering-revolution-9780252073229","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}