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Subject(s)

• Documentary photography—United States—History—20th century—Exhibitions [Browse]
• Photography—United States—History—20th century—Exhibitions [Browse]
• New Deal, 1933-1939—Exhibitions [Browse]
• Depressions—1929—United States—Exhibitions [Browse]
• United States—Social conditions—1933-1945—Exhibitions [Browse]
• United States—Rural conditions—Exhibitions [Browse]
• United States—Economic conditions—1918-1945—Exhibitions [Browse]
• Steichen, Edward 1879-1973 [Browse]
• United States Farm Security Administration—Exhibitions [Browse]
• Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) [Browse]

Related name

• Poos, Françoise [Browse]
• Steichen, Edward, 1879-1973 [Browse]

Notes

Contains photographs by Paul Carter, John Collier, Jr., Jack Delano, Walker Evans, Theo Jung, Dorothea Lange, Russell Lee, Carl Mydans, Arthur Rothstein, Ben Shahn, John Vachon, and Marion Post Wolcott.

Bibliographic references

Contains bibliographical references (p. 284) and index.

Contents

• Vantage point : "The bitter years" reconsidered / Jean Back
• Of power and politics : Steichen at MOMA / Ariane Pollet
• Testimony or instrument of propaganda : what is the role of photography? / Gabriel Bauret
• "A very living document of our age": constructing and deconstructing the FSA archive
• The château d'eau : a water tower as cultural reservoir / Antoinette Lorang
• "The Bitter Years" : The plates.

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ISBN

• 9781935202868
• 1935202863

OCLC

840937652

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