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Carson, Jeanie Cooper. "Interpreting National Identity in Time of War: Competing Views in U.S. Office of War Information (OWI) Photography," American and New England Studies Program, Boston University, January 1995.
This dissertation explores constructions of national identity in OWI picture publications and argues that U.S. propaganda strategies evolved considerably during World War II. Aesthetic and thematic variations in OWI photography, it contends, are integrally related to ideological differences and mid-war power shifts within the OWI. It shows that the new style of nationalism most historians identify with post-1945, Cold-War campaigns emerged during World War II. Two photographers from competing OWI units receive special attention: Marjory Collins and Alfred Palmer. Although her OWI work followed the agency mandate on celebrating American ideals, Collins’s photography also displays her critical, 1930s social reform attitude. Palmer, by contrast, focussed on the immediate objective of winning the war. Late-war contract photographers followed the lead of Palmer, but their photography was designed to shape long-term world opinion.
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