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FSA: The American Vision

by Gilles Mora

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Publisher Comments:

The photographs produced by the FSA during the Great Depression constitute one of America’s greatest artistic legacies. The project launched a stellar group of young photographers, including Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, Ben Shahn, Carl Mydans, Arthur Rothstein, Marion Post Walcott, and Gordon Parks, who fanned out across America and created images of intense power and poetry. Thousands of FSA photographs have been exhibited and published, and we may feel that we know them well. For this remarkable volume, however, Gilles Mora and Beverly Brannan immersed themselves in the vast archive at the Library of Congress and emerged with unknown treasures. Theirs is a new view of the achievement of the FSA photographers—the most comprehensive in print—that finally gives them their due as the creators of a new American photographic vision.

Book News Annotation:

In 1935 the US Farm Security Administration (FSA) sought to assemble a comprehensive pictorial record of America's cultural and economic conditions during the Great Depression. The project, which continued into 1943, launched a group of young photographers, including Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, Ben Shahn, Arthur Rothstein and Gordon Parks, who fanned out across the country to photograph ordinary people at work. This volume offers a new look at this collection of images, presenting 470 photographs, many of which have not been published before. Each photographer's work is organized in a documentary series, followed by a gallery of his or her most notable images.
Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Book News Annotation:

In 1935 the US Farm Security Administration (FSA) sought to assemble a comprehensive pictorial record of America's cultural and economic conditions during the Great Depression. The project, which continued into 1943, launched a group of young photographers, including Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, Ben Shahn, Arthur Rothstein and Gordon Parks, who fanned out across the country to photograph ordinary people at work. This volume offers a new look at this collection of images, presenting 470 photographs, many of which have not been published before. Each photographer's work is organized in a documentary series, followed by a gallery of his or her most notable images. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Synopsis:

For this remarkable volume, Mora and Brannan immersed themselves in the vast archive at the Library of Congress and emerged with unknown treasures. Theirs is a new view of the achievement of the FSA photographers--the most comprehensive in print--that gives them their due as the creators of a new American photographic vision.

Product Details

ISBN:
9780810954977
Subtitle:
The American Vision
Author:
Mora, Gilles
Author:
Brannan, Beverly W.
Author:
Brannan, Beverly
Publisher:
ABRAMS
Subject:
History
Subject:
United States - 20th Century
Subject:
Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions
Subject:
Photojournalism
Subject:
Photography -- History.
Subject:
Subjects & Themes - Portraits
Subject:
Photoessays & Documentaries
Subject:
Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - General
Subject:
United States History.
Subject:
Documentary photography -- United States.
Copyright:
Publication Date:
October 2006
Binding:
Hardcover
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
357
Dimensions:
12.00 x 9.50 in

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