… , Finnegan shines new light on the meanings of poverty, the Depression, and the various …
of FSA images and a balanced commentary on the role of the media, Picturing Poverty is above …

… We go through much fascinating material on the FSA, Tugwell, Stryker, the federal … in the
photographs, which are images of poverty. When Finnegan does get to the images as used in …

… her study rather than the FSA photographs themselves. Indeed, … the entire number of FSA
photographs that were reproduced … of the ‘‘print culture’’ in which FSA photographs appeared. …

… the FSA's photographic project grew. She then thoroughly analyzes the rhetoric offered by
these images, … journal The Survey Graphic, the art photography annual US Camera, and the …

… some way to promoting the FSA and its goals. Picturing Poverty is instructive, making
considerable … of "official images" recorded and just three publications in a print industry …

… Picturing Poverty advances a sophisticated argument for the importance of studying images
… and tracing the ephcmeral paths of image circulation in the public sphere. Finnegan focuses …

… context and culture if we are to come to any real perception of photographs taken over sixty
… In a very strong preface she reviews the historiography of FSA photography, pointing to the …

… While Finnegan forcefully and successfully argues for the circulation of these images …
images, and the resulting alteration of understanding involved in the transformation of print culture …

… on poverty in 1930s print culture complicates our understanding of the role of visual culture
in … As Finnegan writes, “If we are to understand how images become inventional resources in …

… book sets out to put FSA images back in their periodical place. A … images, Finnegan
shows some of the radically different ways in which FSA images were deployed by print culture …