Nieman Foundation for Journalism, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
2001
Published:
China
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 189 Document Number: D01940
Notes:
Nieman Report via online. 3 pages., Report about photographs taken by women in rural China for a book: "Visual voices: 100 photographs of village China by the women of Yunnan Province."
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."
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."
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.
1 page., "The well-known images of urban and rural poverty published during the Great Depression only represented a fragment of the type of photography funded by the American government. The Tennessee Valley Authority, the Works Progress Administration and the Rural Electrification Administration not only needed photographers for recording purposes, but to fashion images of hope and progress."
1 page., "The question of reality is illustrated with the example of Arthur Rothstein's photography for the Farm Security Administration in 1936, and the issue of how much an image can be retouched before the fidelity of the image to nature is compromised."
