Twentieth Century United States Photographers: A Student's Guide

In the introduction of this work, authors Kristin G. Congdon and Kara Kelley Hallmark write that “pictures tell stories and stories are always popular” (p. xiv). This statement encapsulates the myriad purposes the photographers included in this book endeavour to use the medium of photography to achieve. The construction of the book centres around short (approximately three pages) biographical essays on 76 different US photographers whose prominence came to pass in the twentieth century, arranged in alphabetical order by last name. The essays are preceded by an alphabetical list of the artists included in the volume, a seven‐page introductory essay...