Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 162 Document Number: C26637
Notes:
Conference paper, Society for the Study of Social Problems. 2 pages., "The lines between art photography, documentary, and photojournalism have increasingly blurred since the early 1980s." Author cites Dorothea Lange's "Migrant Mother" image [disseminated through the Farm Security Administration] as an emblematic piece of concerned photography "now ubiquitous in realms quite removed from social concern for poverty."
Reid, Robert L. (author) and Viskochil, Larry A. (author)
Format:
Book
Publication Date:
1989
Published:
USA: University of Illinois Press, Urbana, and Chicago Historical Society.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C26617
Notes:
194 pages., "The book illustrates the way in which this programme of documentation not only informed and motivated the public and the government but also contributed to the acceptance of photography as art form."
Discusses the career and contributions of Dorothea Lange in documenting, through her photography, the plight of impoverished agricultural workers in the West during the Great Depression of the 1930s.
Chen, Peter (author / Communications Officers, South Central Asia Regional Office, UNICEF, New Delhi, India) and Communications Officers, South Central Asia Regional Office, UNICEF, New Delhi, India
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1990-06
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 79 Document Number: C04454
Pete, Daniel (author), Foresta, Merry A. (author), Stange, Maren (author), and Stein, Sally (author)
Format:
Book
Publication Date:
1987
Published:
USA: Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C26615
Notes:
196 pages., Collection of essays exploring in depth the photographic work of five American government agencies in the New Deal era, 1933-1939. Stange discusses the Farm Security Administration and the transformation of rural life.
