Photographs by Lewis Hine
Six black workers in the Alexandria [VA] Glass factory
William Parralla, 313 Second St. S.W., Washington, D.C., a 7 year old newsboy standing in the street with newspapers
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Sally Stein
Presentation Rescheduled
The Insistent, and Persistent, Claims of Social Documentary Photography
Presentation by Sally Stein
Tuesday, September 23, 2008, 7 PM
Woodbridge Campus Theater, Northern Virginia
Community College
This talk reviews a few classic visual projects and continuing debates of documentary photography to argue for the central importance of this genre in the modern tradition and legacy of photography.
bio
Sally Stein, Associate Professor of Art History and Visual Studies at University of California, irvine, has focused her research and writing for many decades on the history of photography, particularly the work of documentarians Dorothea Lange, Marion Post Wolcott, Jack Delano, Rondal Partridge and, most recently, John Gutmann.
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