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newyorker:

Social-Documentary Photography, Back in Context

Creased prints, poorly reproduced images, frayed publicity materials—not what one expects when one enters a fine-art gallery. “It is not a documentary image, but the documentary mode that we see here on journal pages and exhibition walls,” Maren Stange writes in her introduction to the catalogue for “Social Forces Visualized,” on view at the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University.

- For a slide show of photographs from this exhibition: http://nyr.kr/tu8Vzd

All courtesy Community Service Society Records, Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University.