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Web Resources
Civil War: Selected Civil War Photographs Home Page
Jacob Riis: List of Illustrations for How the Other Half Lives
Walker Evans: a) Images for Let Us Now Praise Famous Men b) Walker Evans Project
Leni Riefenstahl: a) Terminus: Leni Riefenstahl; b) Triumph of The Will
Robert Frank: LACMA Masterpieces-Photography-Robert Frank
Pedro Meyer: a) Pedro Meyer; b) Pedro Meyer: Comments and Discussions.
I would also like to thank Professor Randy Bass (for suggestions), Hugh Cloke (re Civil War photography), and Rene Magritte (for the "borrowed" images, and inspiration).