Research Catalog

Title

Searching for the seventies : the DOCUMERICA photography project / Bruce I. Bustard; with a message from David S. Ferriero; foreword by William D. Ruckelshaus.

Author

Bustard, Bruce I., 1954-

Publication

Washington, D. C. : Foundation for the National Archives ; London : D Giles Limited, 2013.

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Additional Authors

• Ferriero, David S.
• Ruckelshaus, William D.
• Ferriero, David S., 1945-
• Ruckelshaus, William Doyle, 1932-2019
• Lawrence F. O'Brien Gallery, host institution.
• United States. National Archives and Records Administration.
• United States. Environmental Protection Agency

Description

xi, 132 p. : col. ill.; 29 cm.

Summary

Revisit the 1970s through 100 remarkable colour photographs taken for the Environmental Protection Agency's 'DOCUMERICA' project. These images chosen, from 22,000 files in the National Archives of the United States, highlight the fashions, trends, problems, and achievements of the decade. In addition to photographs of environmental blight and activism, 'DOCUMERICA' images capture issues such as eco-politics, urban revitalisation, suburbanisation, and deindustrialisation. They depict trends such as the growing appreciation of cultural diversity, the changing roles of women, and post-1960s youth culture. Drawing inspiration from the depression-era Farm Security Administration (FSA) photography project, 'DOCUMERICA' photographers created a portrait of America in the early to mid-1970s featuring small Midwestern towns, barrios in the Southwest, and coal mining communities in Appalachia.

Subject

• DOCUMERICA
• DOCUMERICA > Exhibitions
• Nineteen seventies > Pictorial works
• Documentary photography > Exhibitions
• Photography, Artistic > Exhibitions
• United States > Environmental conditions > Pictorial works

Genre/Form

• exhibition catalogs.
• illustrated books.
• Illustrated works
• Exhibition catalogs
• Pictorial works
• Catalogues d'exposition.
• Ouvrages illustrés.

Note

• "This book is based on the exhibition "Searching for the Seventies: The DOCUMERICA Photography Project," presented in the Lawrence F. O'Brien Gallery at the National Archives Building, Washington, DC, from March 8, 2013, to September 8, 2013."
• "All photographs in this book are digital prints made from DOCUMERICA slides held by the National Archives and Records Administration and are among records od the Environmental Protection Agency, Record Group 412."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (page 127) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Ball of Confusion -- On Assignment: Jack Corn's Appalachia -- Everybody Is a Star -- On Assignment: John H. White's Chicago -- Pave Paradise -- On Assignment: Lyntha Scott Eiler's Arizona -- On Assignment: Tom Hubbard's Fountain Square -- DOCUMERICA Returns.

ISBN

• 9781907804151 (hbk.)
• 1907804153 (hbk.)
• 9780984103379 (pbk.)
• 0984103376 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 813862016
• SCSB-12156891

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library