documentary photography

A selection of photographs drawn from throughout the seventy-year history of "Life" magazine, capturing significant moments in sports, politics, entertainment, fashion, science, and other areas of American life.

Presents the work of five African-American photographers, created between 1929 and 1949, which documents life life in the segregated African-American communities of Washington D.C., Virginia, and New York City.

Collection of black-and-white photographs taken in Mississippi during the depression.

Presents an analysis of social documentary photography from the Depression through the early Cold War years, discussing the political and artistic struggles experienced by socially concerned photographers, and featuring interviews with some artists who feel they were silenced by the government.

Examines the life and work of nine of the most renowned photographers to record life in the United States from the Civil War to the present day. Included are Mathew Brady, William Henry Jackson, Edward Curtis, Lewis Hine, Dorothea Lange, Berenice Abbott, Walker Evans, Margaret Bourke-White, and W. Eugene Smith.

Text and more than 300 photographs trace the evolution of war photography from the 1840s to the present, with an explanation of the changing role of the photographer and an introduction to the men and women who developed this art form.

Photographs with bilingual captions compare the people and social conditions in Puerto Rico since the 1940s.