The likes of us : America in the eyes of the farm security administration / by Stu Cohen ; edited, with a foreword, by Peter Bacon Hales ; photographs by Ben Shahn [and others].
Cohen, Stuart, 1948-
2009
E169 .C66 2009 (Mapit)
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Title The likes of us : America in the eyes of the farm security administration / by Stu Cohen ; edited, with a foreword, by Peter Bacon Hales ; photographs by Ben Shahn [and others].
Author Cohen, Stuart, 1948-
Edition 1st ed.
ISBN 9781567923407 hardcover
1567923402 hardcover
Imprint Boston : David R. Godine, 2009.
Language English
Description xxvii, 183 pages : illustrations ; 32 cm
Call Number E169 .C66 2009
Dewey Decimal Classification 779.092
Summary "Housed at the Library of Congress, the archives of the Farm Security Administration constitute an essential visual record of American life from the late 1920s through the onset of the Second World War. Guided by the adroit hands and watchful eyes of the master photo editor Roy Stryker, the FSA archive includes the work of dozens of photographers, from acknowledged giants like Walker Evans, Ben Shahn, and Dorothea Lange to Marion Post Wolcott and Russell Lee, whose names and work may be less familiar." "This book collects work from nine of these trips - Evans in Louisana and Alabama, Shahn in West Virginia, Lange in California, and others - uniting them with Stryker's shooting scripts, letters, and other relevant archival documents. What emerges, beyond the images themselves, is a complex and vital overview of the FSA at work, not just the work, but how the work evolved and matured under Stryker's guidance. Appropriately, the book concludes with photographs of New Orleans, the only city photographed in depth by the FSA artists."--Jacket.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (page 183).
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Foreword / Peter Bacon Hales
Photography and the Farm Security Administration / Stu Cohen, 1975-1995 ; revised and annotated by Peter Bacon Hales, 2007
An overview of the FSA file, 1935-1942
Ben Shahn : West Virginia, Kentucky, Arkansas, October 1935
Walker Evans : Pennsylvania, Alabama, Louisiana, November 1935-January 1936
Dorothea Lange : migratory workers in California, 1936-1939
Dorothea Lange : threshing of oats, Clayton, Indiana, July 1936
Sheldon Dick : sit-in strike, Flint, Michigan, January 1937
Ben Shahn : Ohio, summer 1938
Marion Post Wolcott : West Virginia, September 1938
Marion Post Wolcott : Miami Beach, Florida, January-April 1939
Russell Lee : Pie Town, New Mexico, June 1940
New Orleans : Ben Shahn, Walker Evans, Carl Mydans, Russell Lee, Marion Post Wolcott, 1935-1941
A selection of shooting scripts and documents issued by Roy Stryker to FSA photographers.

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