Observations : Essays on Documentary Photography

TABLE OF CONTENTS : /
Acknowledgements by James Alinder, vi /
Preface by David Featherstone, vii /
Beaumont Newhall: A Backward Glance at Documentary, 1 /
Bill Jay: The Photographer As Aggressor, 7 /
Maria Morris Hambourg: Atget, Precursor of Modern Documentary Photography, 25 /
Anne Wilkes Tucker: Photographic Facts and Thirties America, 41 /
Alan Trachtenberg : Walker Evans' America: A Documentary Invention, 56 /
Max Kozloff: A Way of Seeing and the Act of Touching: Helen Levitt's Photographs of the Forties, 67 /
William S. Johnson: Public Statements/Private Views: Shifting the Ground in the 1950s, 81 /
Mark Johnstone: The Photographs of Larry Burrows, Human Qualities in a Document, 93 /
Estelle Jussim: Propaganda and Persuasion, 103 /
Contributors, 115.