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Picturing Poverty: Print Culture and FSA Photographs. By Cara A. Finnegan. (Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2003. xxviii, 260 pp. $36.95, ISBN 1-58834-118-6.)
Cara A. Finnegan comes to her study of the public uses of Farm Security Administration (FSA) photographs from a background of history and rhetoric, a combination that serves her well. Insisting that photographs such as those taken by the government's FSA photographers during the 1930s and early 1940s cannot "productively be separated from the texts they accompany, nor should they be viewed as mere supplements to those texts" (p. xv), Dr. Finnegan emphasizes the importance of understanding context and culture if we are to come to any real perception of photographs taken over sixty years ago in a world far removed from our own. . . .
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