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Retired university academic psychologist
- John Raeburn is a retired university academic psychologist who has worked in health promotion, mental health promotion and community wellbeing, was a past Chair of MHF, has a QSO for Community Service, and was the 2015 Public Health Champion.
John Raeburn is Professor Emeritus of American Studies and English at the University of Iowa. His research interests include: American twentieth-century cultural history; American photography; American film; the 1930s; American literature after 1865; and history of the book.
Dec 1, 2007 · But it is Raeburn's attention to institutions and periodicals that marks the book's key contribution: its recognition of the role of circulation in 1930s visual culture. In his chapter on Steichen he explores the role of Vanity Fair in circulating popular, high-fashion, and celebrity images.
- Cara A. Finnegan
- 2007
John Raeburn’s A Staggering Revolution: A Cultural History of Thirties Photography. Raeburn does manage to shine new light on the photography of the American 1930s, in particular on the artistic side of the period’s photographic expression, an aspect often overshadowed by the prolific and now more
Mar 20, 2008 · Abstract. John Raeburn, A Staggering Revolution: A Cultural History of Thirties Photography (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2006, £21.99). Pp. xxii+372. isbn 0 252 07322 3. Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 March 2008.
A Staggering Revolution offers an illuminating analysis of the sociology of photography's art world and its galleries and exhibitions, but also demonstrates the importance of the novel venues created by impresarios and others that proved essential to photography's extraordinary dissemination.
- John Raeburn
John Raeburn is a retired university academic psychologist who has worked in health promotion, mental health promotion and community wellbeing, was a past Chair of MHF, has a QSO for Community Service, and was the 2015 Public Health Champion.
Jul 24, 2012 · JOHN RAEBURN is professor emeritus of American Studies and English at the University of Iowa. He is the author of books on Frank Capra, Ernest Hemingway, Ben Shahn, and American...
