9.1 Gordon Parks, Ella Watson (American Gothic), 1942. Gelatin silver print. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

9.2 Walker Evans, Untitled, from Land of the Free, by Archibald MacLeish, 1937. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

9.3 Dorothea Lange, Migrant Mother, 1936, from Midweek Pictorial, October 17, 1936. F.S.A. Scrapbook, FSA-OWI Written Records. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

9.4 Dorothea Lange, Ma Burnham, from An American Exodus, by Dorothea Lange and Paul Schuster Taylor, 1939, pp. 150-51. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

9.5 Arthur Rothstein, Fleeing a Dust Storm, Cimarron County, Oklahoma, April 1936. Gelatin silver print. F.S.A. Collection. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

9.6 Russell Lee, The Faro Caudill [family] eating dinner in their dugout, Pie Town, New Mexico, 1940. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., screengrab from the Flickr image-sharing website.

9.7 Walker Evans, Allie Mae Burroughs, 1936, from Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, by Walker Evans and James Agee, 1941. Gelatin silver print. Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin.

9.8 Esther Bubley, Listening to a Murder Mystery on the Radio in a Boarding House Room, 1943. Gelatin silver print. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

9.9 Margaret Bourke-White, Cover of Life, vol. 1, no. 1, November 23, 1936.

9.10 Eudora Welty, Crossing the Pavement , Utica, Mississippi, 1930s. Gelatin silver print. Eudora Welty Collection. Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Jackson, Mississippi.

9.11 Jack Delano, Women Workers employed as wipers in the roundhouse having lunch in their rest room, C. & N. W. R.R, 1943. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

9.12 Carl Mydans, Back Yard Alley Dwelling, from Twelve Million Black Voices: A Folk History of the Negro in the United States, by Richard Wright, 1941. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

9.13 Berenice Abbott, Daily News Building, from her book Changing New York (text by Elizabeth McCausland), 1939. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

9.14 Doris Ulmann, Mr. and Mrs. Anderson, Saluda, North Carolina, 1933 or 1934. Platinum print.

9.15 Ernst Thormann, Cover of Der Arbeiter-Fotograf (The Worker-Photographer), November 1929.

9.16 Humphrey Spender, Midway Clowns, Blackpool, 1937. Gelatin silver print. Bolton Museum and Art Gallery, England.

9.17 Bill Brandt, Parlormaid and Under-Parlormaid Ready to Serve Dinner, 1932-35. Gelatin silver print. Bill Brandt Archive, London.

9.18 Aaron Siskind, Reflection of a Man in a Dresser Mirror, from Harlem Document, c. 1938. Gelatin silver print. George Eastman House, Rochester, New York.

9.19 James van der Zee, Couple in Raccoon Coats, 1932. Gelatin silver print.

9.20 Morgan and Marvin Smith, Transit Workers Union Strike, c. 1940. New York Public Library, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

9.21 Carl van Vechten, Georgia O’Keeffe, June 5, 1936. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

9.22 Laure Albin-Guillot, Diatom, from Micrographie décorative, pl. xviii, by Laure Albin-Guillot, 1931. Photogravure. George Eastman House, Rochester, New York.

9.23 Designer Unknown, “Zwei Welten …” (Two Worlds). Advertisement for Eukutol Skin Cream in Münchner Illustrierte Presse, no. 5, January 31, 1932, p. 105. Institut für Zeitungsforschung, Dortmund, Germany.

9.24 Berenice Abbott, Light Rays through a Prism, Cambridge, c. 1958. Gelatin silver print. New York Public Library, New York.

9.25 Harold Edgerton, Drop of Milk Splashing into a Saucer of Milk, 1936. Stroboscopic photograph. PalmPress, Concord, Massachusetts.

9.26 George Hurrell, Jean Harlow, 1935.

9.27 Photographic studio image of a cross-dressing party, c. 1920. Courtesy of the author.

9.28 Photo-booth photograph album, c. 1940. Courtesy of the author.

9.29 Alfred Eisenstaedt, Joseph Goebbels, 1933. Gelatin silver print.

9.30 Roman Vishniac, Boy with Earlocks, 1937. Gelatin silver print.

John Heartfield, Durch Licht zur Nacht (Through Light to Night), May 19, 1933. Photographic collage. Akademie der Kunst, Berlin.

9.32 Robert Capa, Death of a Loyalist Soldier, Spain, 1936. Gelatin silver print.

9.33 Robert Capa, Ed Regan, Veteran of Omaha Beach D-Day Landing, June 6, 1944. Gelatin silver print.

9.34 W. Eugene Smith, U.S. Marines with a Wounded and Dying Infant, June 1944. Gelatin silver print.

9.35 Joe Rosenthal, Marines Raising the American Flag on Iwo Jima – “Old Glory goes up on Mt. Suribachi,” February 23, 1945. Gelatin silver print.

9.36 Yevgeny Khaldei, Reichstag, Berlin, 1945. Gelatin silver print. Galerie Voller Ernst, Berlin.

9.37 Lee Miller, Buchenwald, April 1945. Gelatin silver print. Lee Miller Archives, Chiddingly, East Sussex, England.

9.38 Henri Cartier-Bresson, Gestapo Informer, Dessau, Germany, 1945. Gelatin silver print.