All Available Light: The Life and Legacy of Photographer Ted Polumbaum

by Judy Polumbaum

Overview

As a young journalist during the Red Scare of the early 1950s, Ted Polumbaum defied Congressional inquisitors and suffered the usual consequences--he was fired, blacklisted, and trailed by the FBI. Yet he survived with his integrity intact to build a new career as an intrepid photojournalist, covering some of the most critical struggles of the latter half of the 20th century.

In this biography, written two decades after his death, his daughter introduces this quirky, accomplished, politically engaged family man of the "Greatest Generation," who was both of and ahead of his times. Polumbaum's fortitude, humor and optimism emerge, animated by the conscience of principled dissidence and social activism. His photography, with its unpretentious portrayals of the famous, the infamous, and the unsung heroes of humanity around the world, reflects his courage in the face of mass hysteria and his lifelong commitment to social justice.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781476644073
Publisher:	McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Publication date:	06/10/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	206
File size:	14 MB
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Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Judy Polumbaum, University of Iowa professor emerita of journalism and mass communication, is a journalist, scholar and educator with a long and varied publication record. She lives in Rhode Island.
Judy Polumbaum, University of Iowa professor emerita of journalism and mass communication, is a journalist, scholar and educator with a long and varied publication record. She lives in Rhode Island.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Note to the Reader
Kinship Guide
1. The Decisive Moment
2. Assignment: Escuminac
3. The Birthplace of the Fifties
4. A Potentially Very Rewarding Occupation
5. Seek, Strike, Destroy
6. The Ivied Idyll
7. Seeking Haven
8. Looking to Launch
9. Defiance
10. Assignment: Exploding Stars
11. The Portals Open
12. Assignment: Prelude to Camelot
13. Family Pictures
14. Assignment: Home Birth
15. Finding Perspective
16. Assignment: Afterimage
17. Up the Cool Potomac
18. Assignment: Teen Rockers
19. Freedom Is Never Free
20. Assignment: The Station Wagon
21. Fissures in the American Century
22. Assignment: Conversion
23. Lost and Found
24. Their September Eleventh
25. Assignment: Finding Armando
26. Varieties of Departure
27. Wanderings and Wonderings
28. Assignment: Human Landscapes
29. Grandpa Is a Stone Wall
30. The Mind’s Eye
Selected Sources
Index

Editorial Reviews

Do yourself a favor and read the highly original All Available Light, which is really three books in one, each of which deepens one’s understanding of the others: A loving daughter’s memoir of her late father, a Cold War account of the courage it took not to name names during the McCarthyite years (which he didn’t), and an erudite but easily accessible account of how a caring photographer goes about making the images that are still very much still with us.”—Victor S. Navasky, author of Naming Names, former editor and publisher of The Nation

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