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."
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.
Examines the impact of photographer Dorothea Lange and others who used social documentary photography to create "a visually stunning, realistic, often uncomfortable body of work."
Via www.geographical.co.uk, Describes efforts of an award-winning photographer to document negative effects of forestry policy "imported to Lithuania from the European Union."
About Walker Evans photography of sharecropping families in Alabama during the depression (1936) while he was working for the Farm Security Administration.
