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Picturing a nation : the Great Depression's finest photographers introduce America to itself / Martin W. Sandler.

Sandler, Martin W., (author.). Delano, Jack, 1914-1997 (photographer.). Evans, Walker, 1903-1975 (photographer.). Lange, Dorothea, (photographer.). Lee, Russell, 1903-1986 (photographer.). Mydans, Carl, (photographer.). Parks, Gordon, 1912-2006 (photographer.). Rothstein, Arthur, 1915-1985 (photographer.). Shahn, Ben, 1898-1969 (photographer.). Vachon, John, 1914-1975 (photographer.). Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910-1990 (photographer.).

Summary:

This book features photographs taken for the Farm Security Administration by ten renowned photographers, featuring scenes from regions throughout the United States.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781536215250
  • ISBN: 1536215252
  • Physical Description: 165 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 26 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2021.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 160-161) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
An extraordinary time -- A regional approach -- The South -- The Midwest -- The West -- The Northeast -- An extraordinary achievement -- Profiles.
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader AR MG+ 8.2 3 515214.

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Subject: United States. Farm Security Administration > History.
United States. Farm Security Administration > Juvenile literature.
Documentary photography > United States > History > 20th century.
Depressions > 1929 > United States > Pictorial works.
Photographers > United States > History > 20th century.
Depressions > 1929 > Pictorial works.
Documentary photography > History > 20th century > Juvenile literature.
United States > History > 1933-1945 > Pictorial works.
Genre: Photobooks.

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  • 40 of 41 copies available at Missouri Evergreen. (Show)
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Picturing a Nation: the Great Depression's Finest Photographers Introduce America to Itself
Picturing a Nation: the Great Depression's Finest Photographers Introduce America to Itself
by Sandler, Martin W.
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Picturing a Nation: the Great Depression's Finest Photographers Introduce America to Itself


A National Book Award winner mines photographic gold to show--and tell--the story of the Great Depression. In an exquisitely curated volume of 140 full-color and black-and-white photographs, Martin W. Sandler unpacks the United States Farm Security Administration's sweeping visual record of the Great Depression. In 1935, with the nation bent under unprecedented unemployment and economic hardship, the FSA sent ten photographers, including Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, and Gordon Parks, on the road trip of a lifetime. The images they logged revealed the daily lives of Southern sharecroppers, Dust Bowl farmers in the Midwest, Western migrant workers, and families scraping by in Northeast cities. Using their cameras as weapons against poverty and racism--and in service of hope, courage, and human dignity--these talented photographers created not only a collective work of art, but a national treasure. Grouped into four geographical regions and locked in focus by rich historical commentary, these images--many now iconic--are history at its most powerful and immediate. Extensive back matter includes photographer profiles and a bibliography.
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