American Photographs: The First Century. From the Isaacs Collection in the National Museum of American Art. Untitled (Friends of Photography) Key Themes: The Irony of

Key Themes: The Irony of the American Dream

Margaret Bourke-White: Represented through her industrial and corporate imagery that turned machinery into art

was an excellent documentary photographer

and geography of San Francisco provided the initial "training ground" for his eye

Dody Weston Thompson

American Photographs: The First Century. From the Isaacs Collection in the National Museum of American Art. Untitled (Friends of Photography) Key Themes: The Irony ofEdited by Merry A. Foresta. Smithsonian, 1996. Phenomenal photographs collected by Charles Isaacs, Jr., who provides an Afterword. 79 color plates plus more than 100 four color images. George Barker, William Bell, Charles Bierstadt, Elias Bonine, Mathew Brady, Annie Brigman, Alexander Gardner, Laura Gilpin. O. Pierre Havens; William Rau, Paul Haviland, F. Jay Haynes, Alexander Hesler, Pach Brothers, Lejaren Hillers, Lewis Hine, William Henry Jackson,