Seeing America: Women Photographers Between the Wars

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Summary: Photographers' lives
Review: This careful and informative book grew from the author's dissertation on visual imagery and photography. The biographies of the photographers are examined fully, and in their social, political, and historical contexts. Unfortunately, only a dozen or so photographs by each artist is included. One yearns for the images! The narrative is careful, conscientious, and of value to anyone with an interest in the lives and words of these important photographers. The book would have been greatly improved by the inclusion - likely prohibitively expensive to the publisher, an academic press - of many more examples from the subjects' life's work: photography.