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New Deal Photography: USA 1935-1943
Peter Walther
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Description for New Deal Photography: USA 1935-1943
Hardcover. How the Farm Security Administration introduced America to Americans BIC Classification: AJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 151 x 46. Weight in Grams: 1196.
Through these travels and the photographs, I got to love the United States more than I could have in any other way. - Jack Delano Amid the ravages of the Great Depression, the United States Farm Security Administration (FSA) was first 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 ... Read more
Through these travels and the photographs, I got to love the United States more than I could have in any other way. - Jack Delano Amid the ravages of the Great Depression, the United States Farm Security Administration (FSA) was first 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Taschen
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
608
Place of Publication
Cologne, Germany
ISBN
9783836537117
SKU
V9783836537117
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Ref
99-4
About Peter Walther
Peter Walther has edited various publications on literary, photographic, and contemporary historical themes, including books on Goethe, Fontane, Thomas Mann, and writers in the First World War, as well as several illustrated books with historical color photographs. He has also curated several exhibitions. He is particularly interested in early color photography techniques.
Reviews for New Deal Photography: USA 1935-1943
...a comprehensive survey of the work done by the FSA, including that more rarely seen color work. From street scenes to pictures of field laborers and train yards, these images show us what the United States looked like in a bygone era, one rife with economic struggle.