From skyscrapers to struggle: Exhibition captures the two faces of America

The American dream, in all its varieties of optimism and poverty, has come to the Dulwich Picture Gallery.
A new photography exhibition looks at how Americans viewed themselves, but also, thanks to reproductions in magazines, how we often see Americans.Moving from the optimism of the early skyscraper age, through the trauma of the Great Depression, and into the uneasy prosperity of the post-war decades, the exhibition follows both the evolution of photography and the emergence of the United Stat