Ellen Macfarlane is Assistant Professor of Art History in the School of Art and Art History at the University of Denver.

• ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Group f.64 and the Limits of Political Photography 2. “The Pure Negroid Types I Prefer”: Consuelo Kanaga’s Portraits of Black Americans 3. The Politics of Edward Weston’s “Pure Food” Photography: Fruits and Vegetables in the Depression4. Imogen Cunningham’s Botanical Photographs: American Horticulture and the Colonial Purification of PlantsConclusionNotes BibliographyList of IllustrationsIndex

Ellen Macfarlane is Assistant Professor of Art History in the School of Art and Art History at the University of Denver.

• ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Group f.64 and the Limits of Political Photography 2. “The Pure Negroid Types I Prefer”: Consuelo Kanaga’s Portraits of Black Americans 3. The Politics of Edward Weston’s “Pure Food” Photography: Fruits and Vegetables in the Depression4. Imogen Cunningham’s Botanical Photographs: American Horticulture and the Colonial Purification of PlantsConclusionNotes BibliographyList of IllustrationsIndex

Ellen Macfarlane is Assistant Professor of Art History in the School of Art and Art History at the University of Denver.

• ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Group f.64 and the Limits of Political Photography 2. “The Pure Negroid Types I Prefer”: Consuelo Kanaga’s Portraits of Black Americans 3. The Politics of Edward Weston’s “Pure Food” Photography: Fruits and Vegetables in the Depression4. Imogen Cunningham’s Botanical Photographs: American Horticulture and the Colonial Purification of PlantsConclusionNotes BibliographyList of IllustrationsIndex