"Discusses the role of social photography in effecting a change in the ideology of the American Dream from individualism to co-operation during the Great Depression of the 1930s." Focuses on the work of Farm Security Administration photographers of that period.
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."
Witherite, G. (author / Community Aide, Centre County, PA) and Community Aide, Centre County, PA
Format:
Conference paper
Publication Date:
1972
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 26 Document Number: B02653
Notes:
See B02289 for original; Phase 1, In: Communication for change with the rural disadvantaged : a workshop. Washington, D.C. : National Academy of Sciences, 1972. p. 30-35
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 173 Document Number: C29245
Notes:
Via KCET and "Documenting the Face of America" web site. 3 pages., Announcement and summary of a documentary about "the legendary group of New Deal-sponsored photographers who traversed the country in the 1930s and early 1940s to capture some of the most iconic images in history."
