Greater American Camera

“Traversing artistic, political, literary, and technological territories ranging from the folkloric to the avant-garde and the individual to the masses, the author applies a sharpened historical awareness and nuanced aesthetic sensitivity.”—E. Baden, Choice

“Bravo draws on enormously creative research strategies to construct convincing narratives of influence and productive creative exchange. The transnationalism of her framework is crucial to her book’s success.”—Harper Montgomery, Art Bulletin

“By inviting the reader to think of an expanded photographic landscape in which Strand and Levitt worked alongside Álvarez Bravo, Cartier Bresson, and Walker Evans, Bravo has provocatively shifted our perspective on the canon of Mexican modernism.”—Rubén Gallo, caa.reviews

“Greater American Camera is a retort to Trumpian isolationism and xenophobia, and both offers and reinforces concepts of shared values, interchangeability, and commonality. Monica Bravo seeks to admonish, nurture, direct, and discover.”—Peter Goin, New Mexico Historical Review

Charles Rufus Morey Book Award Finalist, sponsored by the College Art Association

“A highly significant and timely study, exemplifying how the porosity of borders yields great benefits for both sides. Greater American Camera is driven by exceptional rigor of research and scholarship of the highest level.”—Leonard Folgarait, Vanderbilt University

“Bravo offers timely insights into photography as an art form specifically suited to exchange and into an art world made greater through intercultural collaborations and dialogue.”—Lauren Kroiz, author of Cultivating Citizens: The Regional Work of Art in the New Deal Era