{"product_id":"new-deal-photography-usa-1935-1943-9783836537117","title":"New Deal Photography. USA 1935-1943","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Through these travels and the photographs, I got to love the United States more than I could have in any other way.\" -- Jack Delano\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Amid the ravages of the Great Depression, the United States \u003cstrong\u003eFarm Security Administration\u003c\/strong\u003e (FSA) was first founded in 1935 to address the country's rural poverty. Its efforts focused on improving the lives of sharecroppers, tenants, and very poor landowning farmers, with resettlement and collectivization programs, as well as modernized farming methods. In a parallel documentation program, the FSA hired a number of photographers and writers to \u003cstrong\u003erecord the lives of the rural poor and \"introduce America to Americans\u003c\/strong\u003e.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This book records the full reach of the FSA program from \u003cstrong\u003e1935 to 1943\u003c\/strong\u003e, honoring its \u003cstrong\u003evigor and commitment across subjects, states, and stylistic preferences\u003c\/strong\u003e. The photographs are arranged into four broad regional sections but otherwise allowed to speak for themselves--to provide individual impressions as much as they cumulatively build an \u003cstrong\u003eindelible survey of a nation\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The images are both color and black-and-white, and span the complete spetrum of American rural life. They show us \u003cstrong\u003econvicts, cotton workers, kids, and relocated workers on the road\u003c\/strong\u003e. We see subjects victim to the elements of nature as much as to the vagaries of the global economic market. We find the work of such perceptive, sensitive photographers as \u003cstrong\u003eMarion Post Wolcott, Jack Delano, Russell Lee, Walker Evans, Ben Shahn, \u003c\/strong\u003eand \u003cstrong\u003eDorothea Lange, \u003c\/strong\u003eand read their own testimonies to the FSA project and their encounters with their subjects, including Lange's worn, weather-beaten and iconic \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eMigrant Mother\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e What unites all of the pictures is a \u003cstrong\u003ecommitment to the individuality and dignity of each subject\u003c\/strong\u003e, as much as to the witness they bear to this particular period of the American past. The subjects are entrenched in the hardships of their historical lot as much as they are caught in universal cycles of growing, playing, eating, aging, and dying. Yet they face the viewer with what is utterly their own: \u003cstrong\u003ea unique, irreplaceable, often unforgettable presence\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWalther, Peter:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Peter Walther has edited various publications on literary, photographic, and contemporary historical themes, including books on Goethe, Fontane, Thomas Mann, Hans Fallada, and writers in the First World War, as well as several illustrated books with historical color photographs. He has also curated several exhibitions. He is particularly interested in early color photography techniques.","brand":"Taschen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50705000366354,"sku":"9783836537117","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d044b02a-02b5-41c7-8bcd-214bc29321c5.jpg?v=1734485148","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/new-deal-photography-usa-1935-1943-9783836537117","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}