| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.1

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Cara A. Finnegan. Picturing Poverty: Print Culture and FSA Photographs. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution. 2004. Pp. xxvii, 260. $36.95.

One of the difficulties of working with cultural artifacts, especially mass-mediated ones such as photographs, is that while it is possible to understand and determine to various degrees the intentions of the creators, it is almost impossible to determine to any degree the response of the audiences. Sales figures tell how many people saw something but not how they responded, while reviews and critiques only give independent views of responses, not necessarily widely held. In order to deal with this dilemma, Cara A. Finnegan has focused on a neglected aspect of cultural history: the role of circulation in the process of cultural production.

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