Volume 21, Number 6 · April 18, 1974
Shooting America
By Susan Sontag
"Fotografa di un'Epoca: Ghitta Carell"
Special issue of Skema Anno V, Numero 8/9
65 pp., 1,500 lire
Men Without Masks: Faces of Germany 1910-1938
by August Sander, with an introduction by Golo Mann
New York Graphic Society, 314 pp., $27.50
Dwellers at the Source: Southwestern Indian Photographs of A. C. Vroman, 1895-1904
by William Webb, by Robert A. Weinstein
Grossman, 226 pp., $25.00
In This Proud Land: America 1935-1943 As Seen in the Farm Security Administration Photographs
by Roy Emerson Stryker, by Nancy Wood
New York Graphic Society, 208 pp., $17.50
As They Were
by Tuli Kupferberg, by Sylvia Topp
Links Books, 160 pp., $2.95 (paper)
Down Home
by Bob Adelman, text edited by Susan Hall
McGraw-Hill, 168 pp., $16.95
Wisconsin Death Trip
by Michael Lesy, with a preface by Warren Susman
Pantheon Books, 264 pp., $5.95 (paper)
Photography has the unappealing reputation of being the most realistic of the mimetic arts. In fact, it is the one art that has managed to carry out the grandiose, century-old threats of a Surrealist takeover of the modern sensibility—while most of the pedigreed candidates have dropped out of the race.
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