"Women, Workers, and Race in LIFE Magazine ": "Hansel Mieth? Reform Photojournalism, 1934-1955 "Routledge, 05.07.2017 - 304 Seiten The tension between social reform photography and photojournalism is examined through this study of the life and work of German ?gr?ansel Mieth (1909-1998), who made an unlikely journey from migrant farm worker to Life photographer. She was the second woman in that role, after Margaret Bourke-White. Unlike her colleagues, Mieth was a working-class reformer with a deep disdain for Life's conservatism and commercialism. In fact, her work often subverted Life's typical representations of women, workers, and minorities. Some of her most compelling photo essays used skillful visual storytelling to offer fresh views on controversial topics: birth control, vivisection, labor unions, and Japanese American internment during the Second World War. Her dual role as reformer and photojournalist made her a desirable commodity at Life in the late 1930s and early 40s, but this role became untenable in Cold War America, when her career was cut short. Today Mieth's life and photographs stand as compelling reminders of the vital yet overlooked role of immigrant women in twentieth-century photojournalism. Women, Workers, and Race in LIFE Magazine draws upon a rich array of primary sources, including Mieth's unpublished memoir, oral histories, and labor archives. The book seeks to unravel and understand the multi-layered, often contested stories of the photographer's life and work. It will be of interest to scholars of photography history, women's studies, visual culture, and media history. |
Inhalt
Hungry years | |
San Francisco | |
Harry Bridges | |
Bums and workers | |
Monkey | |
Harlem | |
Heart Mountain | |
Fellbach and Santa Rosa | |
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African American Arizona Foundation artists Birth Control Bourke-White Bureau File California camera caption Cayo Santiago Center for Creative Chinatown Collection Center Creative Photography cultural documentary Dorothea Lange editors evacuation Fellbach Gaetano Maida Garment Workers Germany Hansel Mieth Hansel Mieth/The Harry Bridges Heart Mountain Heart Mountain Story ILGWU immigrant internment Interview Mieth/Maida Interview Mieth/Mitchell Interview with Hansel Japanese American John Shaw Billings Karl Akiya labor Lange’s Life’s lived longshoremen look Luce Luce’s magazine magazine’s Margaretta Mitchell Maria’s Mieth and Hagel Mieth and Otto Mieth manuscript Mieth recalled Mieth’s monkey Mieth’s photographs Mieth/Hagel Archive Mieth/The LIFE Picture migrant mother Nancy Schiesari Negroes Nurse Midwife Otto Hagel photo essay Photo League Photograph by Hansel photojournalism photojournalists Picture Collection/Getty Images portrait postwar Primate published racial Return to Fellbach San Francisco Ships shot shows social strike union University of Arizona University Press visual wartime waterfront York