New Deal Photography. USA 1935-1943
How the FSA introduced the United States to Americans
In 1935, amid the ruins of the Great Depression, the U.S. Agricultural Safety Administration (FSA) was first established to address rural poverty in the United States.The organization focused on improving the lives of tenant farmers, tenant farmers and extremely poor peasants through resettlement and collectivization programs and modernized farming methods.At the same time, the FSA has hired numerous photographers and writers to record the lives of rural poor and introduce America to Americans.
This book records the entire course of the FSA program from 1935 to 1943, honoring the vitality and dedication of the subject, state, and style preferences.Photographs are largely divided into four regional sections, but other sections allow you to accumulate individual impressions as well as an indelible survey of a country.
The photograph consists of color and black and white, covering all areas of American rural life.The photos show prisoners, cotton workers, children and migrant workers.We see subjects sacrificed by natural factors as much as by the volatility of the global economic market.Examine the works of keen and delicate photographers such as Marion Post-Ulcott, Jack Delano, Russell Lee, Walker Evans, Ben Shan, and Doracia Lang, and read their own testimony about Lang's old, rain-weary, iconic immigrant mother, and her encounter with subjects.
It is the individuality and dignity of each subject, and their commitment to testifying to certain periods of America's past, that bring all photographs together.Subjects are in as much historical distress as they are trapped in a universal cycle of growth, play, eat, age, and die.However, they face viewers with an irreplaceable and often unforgettable presence.
The Author: Peter Walther
Peter Walther edited a variety of publications on the subject of literature, photography and modern history, including books on Goethe, Fontaine, Thomas Mann, Hans Palada, and several illustrated books and historical color photographs of World War I writers.We also organized several exhibitions.He is particularly interested in early color photography and is also the author of TASCHEN publications The First World War in Color (2014) and Lewis W. Hine: America at Work (2018).
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