All Available Light

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 ContentsAcknowledgmentsNote to the ReaderKinship Guide1. The Decisive Moment2. Assignment: Escuminac3. The Birthplace of the Fifties4. A Potentially Very Rewarding Occupation5. Seek, Strike, Destroy6. The Ivied Idyll7. Seeking Haven8. Looking to Launch9. Defiance10. Assignment: Exploding Stars11. The Portals Open12. Assignment: Prelude to Camelot13. Family Pictures14. Assignment: Home Birth15. Finding Perspective16. Assignment: Afterimage17. Up the Cool Potomac18. Assignment: Teen Rockers19. Freedom Is Never Free20. Assignment: The Station Wagon21. Fissures in the American Century22. Assignment: Conversion23. Lost and Found24. Their September Eleventh25. Assignment: Finding Armando26. Varieties of Departure27. Wanderings and Wonderings28. Assignment: Human Landscapes29. Grandpa Is a Stone Wall30. The Mind’s EyeSelected SourcesIndex

“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