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Images of Depression-era Louisiana : the FSA photographs of Ben Shahn, Russell Lee, and Marion Post Wolcott / [edited by] Bryan Giemza and Maria Hebert-Leiter.
- Title
- Images of Depression-era Louisiana : the FSA photographs of Ben Shahn, Russell Lee, and Marion Post Wolcott / [edited by] Bryan Giemza and Maria Hebert-Leiter.
- Publication
- Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2017]
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- Description
- ix, 148 pages; 27 cm
- Summary
- In the 1930s, the U.S. government famously sent photographers across the country to document on film the need for federal assistance in rural areas. Dorothea Lange?s well-known image Migrant Mother came from this effort, along with thousands of other photographs. Ben Shahn, Russell Lee, and Marion Post Wolcott contributed to this compelling body of images. As primary photographers for the Farm Security Administration (FSA) in the state of Louisiana, the three took more than 2,600 photographs, recording the modest homes, family gatherings, and working lives of citizens across the state. In Images of Depression-Era Louisiana, Bryan Giemza and Maria Hebert-Leiter curate more than 150 of those photographs, offering a riveting collection that captures this pivotal time in Louisiana?s history.
- Subject
- United States. Farm Security Administration > Photograph collections
- United States. Farm Security Administration
- New Deal (1933-1939)
- 1900-1999
- Depressions > 1929 > Louisiana > Pictorial works
- New Deal, 1933-1939 > Louisiana > Pictorial works
- Documentary photography > Louisiana
- Depressions
- Documentary photography
- Manners and customs
- Photograph collections
- Rural conditions
- Louisiana > History > 20th century > Pictorial works
- Louisiana > Rural conditions > Pictorial works
- Louisiana > Social life and customs > 20th century > Pictorial works
- Louisiana > History, Local > Pictorial works
- Louisiana
- Genre/Form
- History
- Local history
- Pictorial works
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction: The making of visual history -- The photographers' itineraries in Louisiana and state map -- Appendix: Case file transcriptions -- Index of names and places -- Gallery of images.
- ISBN
- 9780807167953
- 0807167959
- 9780807167960 (canceled/invalid)
- 9780807167977 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- ^^2017005936
- OCLC
- 974698563
- SCSB-11849138
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library