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Images of Depression-era Louisiana : the FSA photographs of Ben Shahn, Russell Lee, and Marion Post Wolcott / [edited by] Bryan Giemza and Maria Hebert-Leiter.

Title
  1. Images of Depression-era Louisiana : the FSA photographs of Ben Shahn, Russell Lee, and Marion Post Wolcott / [edited by] Bryan Giemza and Maria Hebert-Leiter.
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  1. Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2017]

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Additional authors
  1. Shahn, Ben, 1898-1969
  2. Lee, Russell, 1903-1986
  3. Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910-1990
  4. Giemza, Bryan Albin
  5. Hebert-Leiter, Maria
  6. United States. Farm Security Administration
Description
  1. ix, 148 pages; 27 cm
Summary
  1. In the 1930s, the U.S. government famously sent photographers across the country to document on film the need for federal assistance in rural areas. Dorothea Lange?s well-known image Migrant Mother came from this effort, along with thousands of other photographs. Ben Shahn, Russell Lee, and Marion Post Wolcott contributed to this compelling body of images. As primary photographers for the Farm Security Administration (FSA) in the state of Louisiana, the three took more than 2,600 photographs, recording the modest homes, family gatherings, and working lives of citizens across the state. In Images of Depression-Era Louisiana, Bryan Giemza and Maria Hebert-Leiter curate more than 150 of those photographs, offering a riveting collection that captures this pivotal time in Louisiana?s history.
Subject
  1. Louisiana
  2. Depressions
  3. Pictorial works
  4. Local history
  5. History
  6. 1900-1999
  7. Rural conditions
  8. Photograph collections
  9. Manners and customs
  10. Documentary photography > Louisiana
  11. Louisiana > History, Local > Pictorial works
  12. Louisiana > Social life and customs > 20th century > Pictorial works
  13. Louisiana > Rural conditions > Pictorial works
  14. New Deal, 1933-1939 > Louisiana > Pictorial works
  15. Depressions > 1929 > Louisiana > Pictorial works
  16. Louisiana > History > 20th century > Pictorial works
  17. New Deal (1933-1939)
  18. United States > Farm Security Administration > Photograph collections
Genre/Form
  1. History
  2. Local history
  3. Pictorial works
Contents
  1. Introduction: The making of visual history -- The photographers' itineraries in Louisiana and state map -- Appendix: Case file transcriptions -- Index of names and places -- Gallery of images.
Owning institution
  1. Harvard Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
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  1. committed to retain