Picturing Arizona

Picturing Arizona
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Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Total Pages : 268
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ISBN-10 : 0816522723
ISBN-13 : 9780816522729
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Book Synopsis Picturing Arizona by : Katherine G. Morrissey

Download or read book Picturing Arizona written by Katherine G. Morrissey and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2005-10 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The more than one hundred images--by well-known photographers such as Dorothea Lange and Laura Gilpin as well as by an array of less familiar ones--places the work of local Arizonans alongside that of federal photographers both to illuminate the impact of the Depression on the state's distinctive racial and natural landscapes and to show the influence of differing cultural agendas on the photographic record. Includes essays by a variety of authors on life in 1930s Arizona and the photographers who documented it.


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