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FSA: The American Visionby Gilles Mora
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher 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. What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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