Abstract

Nathaniel Hawthorne and daguerreotypy : disinterested vision -- Henry James and Alvin Langdon Coburn : the frame of prevision -- Theodore Dreiser, Alfred Stieglitz, and Jacob Riis : envisioning "the other half" -- John Dos Passos and the Soviet cinema : separate frames of truth -- James Agee and Walker Evans : representing poverty during the Great Depression -- John Steinbeck and Dorothea Lange : the surveillance of dissent -- Norman Mailer and combat photography : exposure under fire.