Books & Articles on Documentary Photography & Activism
Photography in AmericaCall Number: 770.973 O79p 2016ISBN: 9780199314225Chapters: Seeing and Believing: Photography as Documentary, Photography and Society, African Americans and Photography
Light, Ken. Witness in Our Time : Working Lives of Documentary Photographers. Washington, D.C: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2000. Print.Call Number: 070.490922 W825L2000, John T. Richardson LibraryISBN: 9781560989233
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