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."
Researcher uses aerial photography and interviews with farm families to study the structure of a dairy farm neighborhood in New York. Identifies two distinct farming systems: craft and industrial.
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."
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."
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."
