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Reviewed on December 1, 1995
This three-volume series is published in conjunction with photographic exhibitions documenting the impact of immigration on American culture. Over the course of four years three nonprofit photography institutes collaborated to gather over 400 photographic images by 88 artists, a project involving hundreds of loan arrangements. The exhibitions are currently circulating among the three organizing museums and then will tour the nation through 1997. The hopes, fears, conflicts, and complexities of the immigrant experience in America--so dramatically revealed by the camera--distinguish this series. Reframing America showcases the works of seven European emigre photographers, from 1923 to 1947, whose innovative artistic techniques captured America's social unrest and racism combined with a ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More