Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 162 Document Number: C26637
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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."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 173 Document Number: C29245
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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."
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.
