A poor picture: the failure of concerned photography to arouse social change

    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Kowalski, Shelley Kara (author)
    Format:
    Abstract
    Publication Date:
    1997
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 162 Document Number: C26637
    Subject Term:
    change, communicators, coverage, distribution, information issues, information needs, media effectiveness, photographs, photography, reporting, roles, rural development, social change, social factors, visual communication, and Farm Security Administration
    Notes:
    Conference paper, Society for the Study of Social Problems. 2 pages., "The lines between art photography, documentary, and photojournalism have increasingly blurred since the early 1980s." Author cites Dorothea Lange's "Migrant Mother" image [disseminated through the Farm Security Administration] as an emblematic piece of concerned photography "now ubiquitous in realms quite removed from social concern for poverty."

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