TY - BOOK ID - 80835554 TI - Seeing America PY - 2004 SN - 9780813158419 0813158419 9780813121321 0813190940 9780813190945 PB - Lexington, Kentucky DB - UniCat KW - Photography KW - Documentary photography KW - Women photographers KW - History UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:80835554 AB - Seeing America explores the camera work of five women who directed their visions toward influencing social policy and cultural theory. Taken together, they visually articulated the essential ideas occupying the American consciousness in the years between the world wars.Melissa McEuen examines the work of Doris Ulmann, who made portraits of celebrated artists in urban areas and lesser-known craftspeople in rural places; Dorothea Lange, who magnified human dignity in the midst of poverty and unemployment; Marion Post Wolcott, a steadfast believer in collective strength as the antidote to social ER -