Photography and politics in America: from the New Deal into the Cold War

Introduction: What is documentary photography?

"Where do we go from here?": The demise of the Photo League, 1947-1951

Coming in from the cold: Sid Grossman's Life in the League

Subtle subterfuge: The flawed nobility of Edward Steichen's Family of Man

Robert Frank: The only game in town?

Postscript: The triumph of American photographic expressionism.