Michelle Bogre, a Professor Emerita at Parsons School of Design, is a documentary photographer, copyright lawyer and author of Photography As Activism: Images for Social Change, and Photography 4.0: A Teaching Guide for the 21st Century, both published by Focal Press. She regularly writes about photography and law for national print and on line publications. She is working on a long-term documentary project on family farms in America.
Offering wide-ranging examples of documentary photography, more than 160 images depict subjects from the ravages of the Civil War to family life in Southeast Ohio's Appalachia. Highly recommended. - CHOICE A much needed comprehensive consideration of where documentary photography is today, led by the voices of diverse practitioners working in the field. - Sian Addicott, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, UK