{"product_id":"9780252092190","title":"A Staggering Revolution: A Cultural History of Thirties Photography","description":"During the 1930s, the world of photography was unsettled, exciting, and boisterous. John Raeburn's \u003ci\u003eA Staggering Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e recreates the energy of the era by surveying photography's rich variety of innovation, exploring the aesthetic and cultural achievements of its leading figures, and mapping the paths their pictures blazed public's imagination.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e While other studies of thirties photography have concentrated on the documentary work of the Farm Security Administration (FSA), no previous book has considered it alongside so many of the decade's other important photographic projects. \u003ci\u003eA Staggering Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e includes individual chapters on Edward Steichen's celebrity portraiture; Berenice Abbott's Changing New York project; the Photo League's ethnography of Harlem; and Edward Weston's western landscapes, made under the auspices of the first Guggenheim Fellowship awarded to a photographer. It also examines Margaret Bourke-White's industrial and documentary pictures, the collective undertakings by California's Group f.64, and the fashion magazine specialists, as well as the activities of the FSA and the Photo League.","brand":"University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47074122596592,"sku":"9780252092190","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780252092190_p0.jpg?v=1763679908","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780252092190","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}