America Worked: The 1950s Photographs of Dan Weiner

by William A. Ewing, Dan Weiner

A photographic view of the worker in the 1950s reveals an emerging lifestyle

192 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1989

About the author

William A. Ewing is a Canadian art historian specializing in photography. He served as the director of the Musée de l'Élysée in Lausanne from 1996 to 2010 and has been a research professor in the art history department at the University of Geneva, where he has focused on the history of photography. He has curated numerous international exhibitions and authored several books on the photographic representation of the human body. He is also the founder of the Todi Circle, an annual think tank on photography held in Todi, Italy. His publications include The Body, Le Siècle du Corps, and Edward Steichen: Carnet Mondain.