Let Us Now Praise Famous Women: Women Photographers for the U.S. Government, 1935 to 1944

Loughery, John; Fisher, Andrea

doi:10.2307/1358372

Woman's Art Journal

1988

DOI: 10.2307/1358372

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Let Us Now Praise Famous Women: Women Photographers for the U.S. Government, 1935 to 1944

John Loughery¹,

Andrea Fisher²

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Social Engineering, Visual Politics, and the New Deal: FSA Photography in Survey Graphic

Finnegan¹

2000

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This essay engages the visual politics of New Deal rhetoric by exploring how Dorothea Lange's government photographs, appearing in the social welfare periodical "Survey Graphic" alongside an essay by progressive economist Paul Taylor, both reflect and resist the principles of social engineering grounding "Survey Graphic's" progressive discourse. Contrary to the assertions of some scholars of Depression-era visual rhetoric, I conclude that the Lange/Taylor "imagetext" should not be read as "pure propaganda" that merely visualizes the ideological aims of the state. Instead, I argue that the Lange and Taylor imagetext should be treated as a complex political discourse that both upholds and challenges "Survey Graphic's" ideology of social order and the authority of the expert.

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Social Engineering, Visual Politics, and the New Deal: FSA Photography in Survey Graphic

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