Bibliograph

Picturing a nation, the Great Depression's finest photographers introduce America to itself, Martin W. Sandler

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Label

Picturing a nation, the Great Depression's finest photographers introduce America to itself, Martin W. Sandler

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 160-161) and index

Illustrations

photographs

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Picturing a nation

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1232149082

Responsibility statement

Martin W. Sandler

Sub title

the Great Depression's finest photographers introduce America to itself

Summary

In 1935, with the nation bent under unprecedented unemployment and economic hardship, the FSA sent ten photographers, including Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, and Gordon Parks, on the road trip of a lifetime. The images they logged revealed the daily lives of Southern sharecroppers, Dust Bowl farmers in the Midwest, Western migrant workers, and families scraping by in Northeast cities. Using their cameras as weapons against poverty and racism—and in service of hope, courage, and human dignity—these talented photographers created not only a collective work of art, but a national treasure. Grouped into four geographical regions and locked in focus by rich historical commentary, these images—many now iconic—are history at its most powerful and immediate

Target audience

juvenile

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