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New Deal photography : USA 1935-1943

Title

New Deal photography : USA 1935-1943 / Peter Walther ; English translation, Isabel Varea-Riley ; German translation, Ursula Wulfekamp ; French translation, Philippe Mothe.

Publication

Cologne : Taschen, [2016]
©2016

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Description

605 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits; 21 cm

Summary

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.

Series Statement

Taschen bibliotheca universalis

Uniform Title

New Deal photography.
New Deal photography. German.
New Deal photography. French.
Bibliotheca universalis (Taschen (Firm))

Subjects

Note

At head of title: Farm Security Administration.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 598-599) and index.

Language (note)

Text in English, German, and French.

Contents

Introduction -- The Northeast -- The Midwest -- The West -- The South -- Appendix: The photographers.

Call Number

JQD 17-228

ISBN

9783836537117
3836537117

OCLC

929918225

Title

New Deal photography : USA 1935-1943 / Peter Walther ; English translation, Isabel Varea-Riley ; German translation, Ursula Wulfekamp ; French translation, Philippe Mothe.

Publisher

Cologne : Taschen, [2016]

Copyright Date

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Taschen bibliotheca universalis

Bibliotheca universalis (Taschen (Firm))

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 598-599) and index.

Language

Text in English, German, and French.

Added Author

Walther, Peter, 1965- editor.

Varea Riley, Isabel, translator.

Wulfekamp, Ursula, translator.

Mothe, Philippe, translator.

United States. Farm Security Administration, issuing body.

Added Title

New Deal photography.

New Deal photography. German.

New Deal photography. French.

Research Call Number

JQD 17-228

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