Janet Zandy

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Janet Zandy is the author of the award winning Hands: Physical Labor, Class, and Cultural Work and other university press books on Ameri can working-class culture. More recently, she has focused on writing about photography. Her latest book is Unfinished Stories: The Narrative Photography of Hansel Mieth and Marion Palfi. Her essay, “Seeing Dirt, Seeing Beyond Dirt,” received the SPE Conference award for excellence in Historical, Critical and Theoretical Writing. She is the recipient of an Ansel Adams Research Award.

Janet Zandy