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A Staggering Revolution: A Cultural History of Thirties Photography. By John Raeburn. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006. xxii, 370 pp. Cloth, $75.00, ISBN 0-252-03084-2. Paper, $35.00, ISBN 0-252-07322-3.)

John Raeburn has produced a major study of, as he puts it, "those few years before the war when photography, it seemed, could be an exceptional tool to analyze and even re-shape the world" (p. 245). Insisting that the influence of photography in thirties America extended far beyond the social documentary images that have been so heavily studied in recent years, Raeburn broadens his view to include high-fashion photography, popular magazine photography, and even art photography. The result is probably the most complete survey to date of the role that the relatively new medium of photography played in depression-era America. . . .

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