Sara Blair is Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan and author of Henry James and the Writing of Race and Nation (Cambridge, 2009). Eric Rosenberg is Associate Professor of Art and Art History at Tufts University and author of Trauma and Visuality in Modernity (Dartmouth, 2006).

"An excellent contribution; moving, considered, articulate and painfully relevant." -- Mark Welch, PhD Metapsychology Online Review "Farm Security Administration work from the 1930s, so often viewed in political and socioeconomic terms, is here reconsidered in light of new theories on how personal and collective trauma may have affected photographers." Art In America

• Introduction Anthony W. Lee Against Trauma: Documentary and Modern Times on the Lower East Side Sara Blair With Trauma: Walker Evans and the Failure to Document Eric Rosenberg Notes Index

Sara Blair is Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan and author of Henry James and the Writing of Race and Nation (Cambridge, 2009). Eric Rosenberg is Associate Professor of Art and Art History at Tufts University and author of Trauma and Visuality in Modernity (Dartmouth, 2006).

"An excellent contribution; moving, considered, articulate and painfully relevant." -- Mark Welch, PhD Metapsychology Online Review "Farm Security Administration work from the 1930s, so often viewed in political and socioeconomic terms, is here reconsidered in light of new theories on how personal and collective trauma may have affected photographers." Art In America

• Introduction Anthony W. Lee Against Trauma: Documentary and Modern Times on the Lower East Side Sara Blair With Trauma: Walker Evans and the Failure to Document Eric Rosenberg Notes Index

Sara Blair is Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan and author of Henry James and the Writing of Race and Nation (Cambridge, 2009). Eric Rosenberg is Associate Professor of Art and Art History at Tufts University and author of Trauma and Visuality in Modernity (Dartmouth, 2006).

"An excellent contribution; moving, considered, articulate and painfully relevant." -- Mark Welch, PhD Metapsychology Online Review "Farm Security Administration work from the 1930s, so often viewed in political and socioeconomic terms, is here reconsidered in light of new theories on how personal and collective trauma may have affected photographers." Art In America

• Introduction Anthony W. Lee Against Trauma: Documentary and Modern Times on the Lower East Side Sara Blair With Trauma: Walker Evans and the Failure to Document Eric Rosenberg Notes Index