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Kozol, Wendy. "Documenting the Public and Private in Life: Political Culture in Postwar Photojournalism," University of Minnesota, June 1990.
In a post-World War II society rife with international and domestic conflicts, Life magazine presented a reassuring portrait of America to its middle-class readers through celebratory representations of domestic life. The focus on the family in news stories reveals a complex relationship between public and private spheres in American culture. Despite the magazine’s reliance on images of middle-class domesticity as representative of the nation, significant tensions and contradictions persist in Life’s domestic narrative confronted and negotiated post-war social tensions and how, in confronting these photo-essays, Americans developed perceptions about themselves and their worlds.
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