Witness in Our Time : Working Lives of Documentary Photographers

by Light, Ken

• ISBN13: 9781560989486
• ISBN10: 1560989483
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2000-09-17
• Publisher: HARPER COLLINS

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction: Seeing and Believing	1	(14)
Kerry Tremain
Photographers
The Depression and the Early Days of Life	15	(9)
Hansel Mieth
Lewis Hine, Paul Strand, and the Photo League	24	(13)
Walter Rosenblum
Magnum Photo Agency: The Early Years	37	(7)
Michelle Vignes
World War II and the Family of Man	44	(10)
Wayne Miller
A Black Photographer in Apartheid South Africa	54	(8)
Peter Magubane
The Civil Rights Movement and the Southern Documentary Project	62	(10)
Matt Herron
Resurrection City	72	(7)
Jill Freedman
Streetwise Photographer	79	(5)
Mary Ellen Mark
The United Mine Workers	84	(6)
Earl Dotter
Americans We	90	(9)
Eugene Richards
Central America and Human Rights	99	(9)
Susan Meiselas
Workers	108	(9)
Sebastiao Salgado
The Indigenous of Mexico	117	(7)
Graciela Iturbide
The Fall of the Iron Curtain	124	(8)
Antonin Kratochvil
Living with the Enemy: Domestic Violence	132	(8)
Donna Ferrato
In the Barrio	140	(8)
Joseph Rodriguez
A Truer India	148	(5)
Dayanita Singh
Portrait of a Refugee	153	(10)
Fazal Sheikh
Editors and Curators
The Environmental Protection Agency's Project DOCUMERICA	163	(9)
Gifford Hampshire
Life Magazine and Outtakes	172	(6)
Peter Howe
Independent Magazine and Reportage	178	(5)
Colin Jacobson
The Museum Context	183	(5)
Ann Wilkes Tucker
Afterword: Witness in Our Time	188	(11)
Ken Light
Bibliography	199	(3)
Important Readings	202	(6)
Index	208