Photography’s Multiple Roles

This monumental book surveys the development of postwar American photography, and isolates four major roles of the medium–artistic expression, journalistic documentation, commercial industry, and scientific tool. With extensive essays from a range of scholars, and work from Arbus, Frank, Lange, Friedlander, and many more, this book represents a major reference work of photo history. “All libraries should consider Photography’s Multiple Roles.”–Library Journal.