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Some Resources for Political Photography (Photojournalism)

Book-Length Works

Bezner, Lili Corbus. Photography and Politics in America: From the New Deal to the Cold War. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins UP, 1999.

Gidal, Tim. Modern Photojournalism: Origin and Evolution, 1910-1933. New York: Macmillan, 1973.

Hardt, Hanno. Picturing the Past: Media, History, and Photography. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1999.

Lacayo, Richard. Eyewitness: 150 Years of Photojournalism. New York: Time: Oxmoor House, 1990.

Newton, Julianne H. The Burden of Visual Truth: The Role of Photojournalism in Mediating Reality. Mahwah, NJ: LEA, 2001.

Ollmann, Leah. Camera as Weapon: Worker Photography Between the Wars: An Exhibition. San Diego, CA: Museum of Photographic Arts, 1991.

Tagg, John. The Burden of Representation: Essays on Photographies and Histories. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1988.

Tausk, Petr. A Short History of Press Photography. Prague, CZ: International Organization of Journalists, 1988.

The World"s Great News Photos, 1840-1980. New York: Crown Pub., 1980.

Article-Length Works

Cockcroft, Eva. "Photography: Art and Politics in Latin American." Art in America 69 (1981): 37ff.

English, Donald E. "Political Photography and the Paris Commune of 1871: The Photographs of Eugene Appert." History of Photography 7 (1983): 31ff.

Finnegan, Cara A. "Darkening O.J.: Visual Argument in Controversy." Argument at Century"s End: Reflecting on the Past and Envisioning the Future, ed. Thomas A. Hollihan. Washington, DC: National Communication Association, 2000. 235-43.

-----. "The Naturalistic Enthymeme and Visual Argument: Photographic Representation in the "Skull Controversy."" Argumentation and Advocacy 37 (2001): 133ff.

Grundberg, Andy. "Ansel Adams: The Politics of Natural Space." New Criterion 3 (1984): 48ff.

Hannum, G. Greenhill. "Photographic Politics: The First American Photographic Salon and the Stieglitz Response." History of Photography 14 (1990): 285ff.

Holland, P., J. Spence, and W. Watney (eds.,) "Photography/Politics Two" [book review]. Media, Culture and Society 11 (1990): 499ff.

Nye, David. "Photography as Communication." Journal of American Culture 9 (1986): 29ff.

Go to http://www.uiowa.edu/commstud/resources/visual.html for web resources. You might check with Hanno Hardt to see if there is some excellent examples you should examine.