Dolores Flamiano's new book featured at Virginia Festival of the Book

JMU's Dolores Flamiano, School of Media Arts and Design, is part of the Virginia Festival of the Book this year, in a session that features two books of interest to faculty and students of women's and gender studies. Dr. Flamiano's book is Women, Workers, and Race in LIFE Magazine: Hansel Mieth's Reform Photojournalism, 1934-1955.

This book examines the tension between social reform photography and magazine photojournalism through a study of the life and work of German emigre Hansel Mieth (1909-1998). Mieth made an unlikely journey from migrant worker to LIFE photographer. She was the second woman in that role, after the well-known Margaret Bourke-White. This book will be of interest to scholars of photography history, women's studies, visual culture, and media history.

Here are the event details:
Thurs., March 17, 10:00-11:30am
UVa Harrison Institute / Small Special Collections
UVa Central Grounds, 160 McCormick Rd, Charlottesville, VA 22904

For more information, and access to the full program, please use this link.