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."
