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Ben Shahn's American scene : photographs, 1938 /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shahn, Ben, 1898-1969
Other Authors: Raeburn, John.Shahn, Ben, 1898-1969
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2010]
Subjects:
Shahn, Ben, > 1898-1969 > Criticism and interpretation.
Documentary photography > Ohio > History.
Photography, Artistic.
Villages > Ohio > Social life and customs > Pictorial works.
Social problems in art.
Ohio > Pictorial works.
ISBN:9780252035302 (cloth : alk. paper)
0252035305 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780252077159 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0252077156 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Table of Contents:
  • "The American institution SMALL TOWN"
  • Photographing Ohio
  • The two sides of the tracks
  • Seeing Main Street
  • Sidewalks
  • Public and religious institutions
  • Modernity and tradition
  • The visible and invisible Poor
  • "We cater to Whites Only"
  • Shahn's negative capability.

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