"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.
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."
Mathews, Kristy E. (author), Freeman, Miranda L. (author), and Desvousges, William H. (author)
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
2007
Published:
International: Springer
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C26045
Notes:
Chapter 5 in Barbara J. Kanninen (ed.), Valuing environmental amenities using stated choice studies: a common sense approach to theory and practice. Springer. 336 pages.
Describes conflict between a fruit corporation and farm workers trying to organize. Examines efforts by the corporation to eliminate unfavorable visual information, curb First Amendment rights of free speech and use negative communications.
Author examines the way press photographers recorded the strike, "stating that the impact of the photographs was in the way they emphasized the importance of on-the-spot news photography. For the first time in California press photography, a 35mm camera was used."
