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BOOK
Title New Deal Photography
Imprint Littlehampton Book Services, 2016

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 Stadsbibl:Ljusets kalender vån 2 Konst, foto, musik, film, teater, sport  779 engelska    CHECK SHELF  ---
Descript 20.2 cm
Series Taschen bibliotheca universalis
Bibliotheca universalis (Taschen (Firm))
Note At head of title: Farm Security Administration
Includes bibliographical references (pages 598-599) and index
Introduction -- The Northeast -- The Midwest -- The West -- The South -- Appendix: The photographers
Amid the ravages of the Great Depression, the United States Farm Security Administration (FSA) was founded in 1935 to address the country's rural poverty. Its efforts focused on improving the lives of sharecroppers, tenants, and very poor landowning farmers, with resettlement and collectivization programs, as well as modernized farming methods. In a parallel documentation program, the FSA hired a number of photographers and writers to record the lives of the rural poor and introduce America to Americans. This book records the full reach of the FSA program from 1935 to 1943, honoring its vigor and commitment across subjects, states, and stylistic preferences. The photographs are arranged into four broad regional sections but otherwise allowed to speak for themselves to provide individual impressions as much as they cumulatively build an indelible survey of a nation. Through color and black-and-white images, we meet convicts, cotton workers, kids on the street, and relocated workers on the road. We see subjects victim to the elements of nature and the timeless rituals of human life, as much as to the vagaries of the global economic market. We meet Dorothea Lange's iconic Migrant Mother, weather-beaten and worn, with two children leaning on her shoulders. What unites all of the pictures is a commitment to the individuality and dignity of each subject, as much as to the witness they bear to this particular period of the American past and to universal cycles of growing, playing, eating, aging, ailing, and dying. Through the lenses of photographers like Dorothea Lange, Jack Delano, Russell Lee, Marion Post Wolcott, Walker Evans, and Ben Shahn, subjects are entrenched in the hardships of their historical lot, caught in the loop of humanity, and yet face the viewer with what is utterly their own: a unique, irreplaceable, often unforgettable presence
Text in English, German, and French
Subject United States. Farm Security Administration -- History
1900-1999
New Deal, 1933-1939 -- Pictorial works
Documentary photography -- United States -- History -- 20th century
United States -- Social conditions -- 1933-1945 -- Pictorial works
United States -- Economic conditions -- 1918-1945 -- Pictorial works
USA
United States
Classmark 779
Alt Auth Walther, Peter, 1965- editor
Varea-Riley, Isabel, translator
Wulfekamp, Ursula, translator
Mothe, Philippe, translator
United States. Farm Security Administration, issuing body
Add Title New Deal photography
New Deal photography. German
New Deal photography. French
ISBN/ISSN 9783836537117 inbunden
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