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A Southern Illinois Album: Farm Security Administration Photographs, 1936-1943 (Shawnee Books)
Herbert K. Russell Ph.D.
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Description for A Southern Illinois Album: Farm Security Administration Photographs, 1936-1943 (Shawnee Books)
Paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages, 114. BIC Classification: AJCR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 254 x 15. Weight in Grams: 499.
Life on the road was anything but glamorous for Farm Security Administration photographers traveling through southern Illinois in the mid-1930s. Often their most promising subjects lived at the end of the worst roads, many of which lacked bridges, drainage ditches, or gravel. Outfitted with three government-issue cameras, flashbulbs, tripods, and film-processing chemicals, their job was to help ""explain America to Americans"" by seeking out and photographing the one-third of the nation FDR described as ""ill-housed, ill-clad, and ill-nourished."" Featured in this book are more than one hundred photographs from the collection of a quarter of a million taken by FSA photographers ... Read more
Life on the road was anything but glamorous for Farm Security Administration photographers traveling through southern Illinois in the mid-1930s. Often their most promising subjects lived at the end of the worst roads, many of which lacked bridges, drainage ditches, or gravel. Outfitted with three government-issue cameras, flashbulbs, tripods, and film-processing chemicals, their job was to help ""explain America to Americans"" by seeking out and photographing the one-third of the nation FDR described as ""ill-housed, ill-clad, and ill-nourished."" Featured in this book are more than one hundred photographs from the collection of a quarter of a million taken by FSA photographers ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Southern Illinois University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Carbondale, United States
ISBN
9780809315895
SKU
V9780809315895
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About Herbert K. Russell Ph.D.
Herbert K. Russell is Director of College Relations at John A. Logan College.
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