American photography Book

	Introduction	8
I	The Developing Image, 1900-1934
	The Snapshot Revolution	15
	Photography as Fine Art	21
	Foreign Peoples, Foreign Places	30
	Extending Vision: Science and Photography	37
	Social Reform: The Camera as Weapon	41
	Capturing Time: Motion Study and Social Control	50
	Photographing the News	54
	World War I: The Camera Goes to War	60
	Advertising Photography	67
	The Cult of Celebrity	77
II	The Photographic Age, 1935-1959
	LIFE and the Rise of the Picture Magazines	89
	The Wire Services	96
	The Farm Security Administration FSA: Documenting the Depression	99
	MoMA, 1937: The History of Photography Comes to the Museum	104
	World War II: Censorship and Revelation	109
	The Photographic Instant and Instant Photography	122
	Fashion Photography	127
	Sex and Voyeurism	134
	The Family of Man: A Heartwarming Vision for the Cold War World	139
	The Americans and the Dark Side of the 1950s	147
III	Photography Transformed, 1960-1999
	Pop Art, Photography, and the Mass Media	153
	Surveillance and the Photograph as Evidence	159
	Civil Rights: Photography and Social Awareness	164
	The Counterculture: Changing Times, Changing Images	168
	Vietnam: Shooting War	173
	Portraiture: The Ideal and the All-too-Real	186
	Photography and the Environment	197
	The New Ethnic Self- Representation	209
	Postmodern Photography	216
	The Digital Revolution	223
	Notes	228
	Bibliography	230
	Acknowledgments	231
	Index	232