Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ555313
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Publication Date: 1997
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Visualizing "The People": Individualism vs. Collectivism in "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men."
Lucaites, John Louis
Quarterly Journal of Speech, v83 n3 p269-88 Aug 1997
Examines the emergence of social documentary photojournalism in the 1930s and its ideological implications. Examines James Agee and Walker Evans's "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men" as representative of the tensions between individualism and collectivism at the heart of liberal democracy. (SR)
Descriptors: Communication Research, Ideology, Individualism, Photojournalism, Rhetoric, Speech Communication
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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