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Professor Claude Cookman is author of the lead article in the fall issue of Visual Communication Quarterly.

"Life visits "Middletown: Trying to repair America's social contract with Margaret Bourke-White's photographs," analyzes Bourke-White's 1937 reportage on Muncie, Ind., the subject of a major sociological study entitled Middletown, USA, and how Life's editors glossed over the impact of the Great Depression on the working-class and unemployed by positing a homogeneous attitude among Muncie residents.

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