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Trauma and Documentary Photography of the FSA
Sara Blair
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Paperback. Proposes that we reconsider the work of the Farm Security Administration and its most beloved photographers in light of various forms of trauma in the 1930s. This title offers ways to understand this body of work by exploring a more variable idea of documentary photography than what the New Dealers proposed. Series: Defining Moments in American Photography. Num Pages: 121 pages, 28 duotones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AJCR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 153 x 204 x 8. Weight in Grams: 218.
The latest volume in the "Defining Moments in American Photography" series, "Trauma and Documentary Photography of the FSA" proposes that we reconsider the work of the Farm Security Administration and its most beloved photographers in light of various forms of trauma in the 1930s. The authors offer new ways to understand this body of work by exploring a more variable idea of documentary photography than what the New Dealers proposed. Taking a critical look at the FSA photography project, they identify its goals, biases, contradictions, and ambivalences, while discerning strikingly independent directions among its photographers. Blair and Rosenberg discuss how, ... Read more
The latest volume in the "Defining Moments in American Photography" series, "Trauma and Documentary Photography of the FSA" proposes that we reconsider the work of the Farm Security Administration and its most beloved photographers in light of various forms of trauma in the 1930s. The authors offer new ways to understand this body of work by exploring a more variable idea of documentary photography than what the New Dealers proposed. Taking a critical look at the FSA photography project, they identify its goals, biases, contradictions, and ambivalences, while discerning strikingly independent directions among its photographers. Blair and Rosenberg discuss how, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
121
Condition
New
Series
Defining Moments in American Photography
Number of Pages
121
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520265660
SKU
V9780520265660
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About Sara Blair
Sara Blair is Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan and author of Henry James and the Writing of Race and Nation (Cambridge, 2009). Eric Rosenberg is Associate Professor of Art and Art History at Tufts University and author of Trauma and Visuality in Modernity (Dartmouth, 2006).
Reviews for Trauma and Documentary Photography of the FSA
"An excellent contribution; moving, considered, articulate and painfully relevant."
Mark Welch, PhD Metapsychology Online Review "Farm Security Administration work from the 1930s, so often viewed in political and socioeconomic terms, is here reconsidered in light of new theories on how personal and collective trauma may have affected photographers." Art In America
Mark Welch, PhD Metapsychology Online Review "Farm Security Administration work from the 1930s, so often viewed in political and socioeconomic terms, is here reconsidered in light of new theories on how personal and collective trauma may have affected photographers." Art In America