Capturing Photos of Corporate Office Life in 1970s America – The New York Times

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Capturing Photos of Corporate Office Life in 1970s America

A photographer set out to portray the cookie-cutter culture of corporate America’s bygone days.

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/21/lens/capturing-photos-of-corporate-office-life-in-1970s-america.html

When Susan Ressler returned home from photographing a Native American community in northern Canada, something didn’t sit well. She had been there for three months in 1973 with an anthropologist, following families as they battled alcoholism and poverty. She had dreamed of becoming a documentary photographer like Dorothea Lange, but her time in Canada left her questioning her privileged status as a photographer.