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The Photographs of Marion Post Wolcott

Author : Marion Post Wolcott
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Photographs of Marion Post Wolcott written by Marion Post Wolcott and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The approximately 172,000 film negatives and transparencies in the Library of Congress's collection from the Farm Security Administration (FSA), later the Office of War Information (OWI), provide a unique view of American life during the Great Depression and World War II. This government photography project, headed by Roy E. Stryker, employed many relatively unknown names who later became some of the twentieth-century's best-known photographers, such as Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Russell Lee, Marion Post Wolcott, Arthur Rothstein, and Carl Mydans. Initially conceived to document government loans to farmers and their subsequent resettlement in suburban communities, the project expanded to create a visual record of agricultural workers across the United States. Later, Stryker's photographers recorded both rural and urban centers as the nation prepared for World War II. Each volume in the Fields of Vision series features an introduction to the work of a single FSA photographer by a leading contemporary author or writer, and presents fifty striking images that show how the particular vision of these photographers helped shape the collective identity of America. Their evocative pictures transport the viewer to American homes, farms, and streets of the 1930s and 1940s, while offering a glimpse of a new narrative and intimate style that was later to blossom on the pages of Look and Life magazines. For many Americans of the pre-television age, the diversity and complexity of their country was defined by the lenses of these men and women. This volume focuses on the photographs of Marion Post Wolcott"--

Looking for the Light

Author : Paul Hendrickson
Publisher : Alfred A. Knopf
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Looking for the Light written by Paul Hendrickson and published by Alfred A. Knopf. This book was released on 1992 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Working for the Farm Security Administration, Marion Post Wolcott traveled across Depression-ravaged America contributing to an incomparable documentary record and photographic legacy. Magnificently illustrated with more than 75 Wolcott photographs, here is a long-overdue celebration of one of the most brilliant photographers of the 20th century.

Marion Post Wolcott, FSA Photographs

Author : Marion Post Wolcott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Marion Post Wolcott, FSA Photographs written by Marion Post Wolcott and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Photographs of Marion Post Wolcott

Author : Amy Pastan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781913875145
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (751 download)

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Download or read book The Photographs of Marion Post Wolcott written by Amy Pastan and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features 50 evocative images selected from the work of Marion Post Wolcott for the FSA.

Images of Depression-Era Louisiana

Author : Bryan Giemza
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807167959
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Images of Depression-Era Louisiana written by Bryan Giemza and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2017-11-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1930s, the U.S. government famously sent photographers across the country to document on film the need for federal assistance in rural areas. Dorothea Lange’s well-known image Migrant Mother came from this effort, along with thousands of other photographs. Ben Shahn, Russell Lee, and Marion Post Wolcott contributed to this compelling body of images. As primary photographers for the Farm Security Administration (FSA) in the state of Louisiana, the three took more than 2,600 photographs, recording the modest homes, family gatherings, and working lives of citizens across the state. In Images of Depression-Era Louisiana, Bryan Giemza and Maria Hebert-Leiter curate more than 150 of those photographs, offering a riveting collection that captures this pivotal time in Louisiana’s history. The book’s stunning photo gallery, with original captions, provides a moving visual tour of Louisiana during a period of economic struggle and transition. Organized by photographer, parish, and date, the revealing images reflect an era when extreme poverty exacerbated the divide between classes and races. Scenes of agricultural and rural communities—families in clapboard houses, sugarcane cutters in the field, and trappers navigating bayous—as well as cityscapes of New Orleans’s bustling markets, busy docks, and peaceful Jackson Square demonstrate the scope of the photographers’ work and the diversity of conditions and occupations they found. Giemza and Hebert-Leiter trace the genesis of the FSA Collection, examine its role in promoting the documentary style of picture-taking, and explore the motivations and methods of the collection’s head, Roy E. Stryker. They sketch the biographies, techniques, and perspectives of Shahn, Lee, and Wolcott, explaining how the photographers operated in Louisiana from their first experiences to their last days in the state. Letters and other archival documents further illuminate the three artists’ impressions of Louisiana, its people, and its traditions.

MARION POST WOLCOTT.

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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (213 download)

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Download or read book MARION POST WOLCOTT. written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ground

Author : W. H. McDowell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781942084129
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (841 download)

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Download or read book Ground written by W. H. McDowell and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An artful selection of photographs commissioned by the FSA but 'killed' by Roy Stryker with some fantastic accompanying text.

New Deal Photographs of West Virginia, 1934-1943

Author : Betty Rivard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781933202884
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book New Deal Photographs of West Virginia, 1934-1943 written by Betty Rivard and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Upon entering the White House in 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt faced an ailing economy in the throes of the Great Depression and rushed to transform the country through recovery programs and legislative reform. By 1934, he began to send professional photographers to the state of West Virginia to document living conditions and the effects of his New Deal programs. The photographs from the Farm Security Administration Project not only introduced “America to Americans,” exposing a continued need for government intervention, but also captured powerful images of life in rural and small town America.New Deal Photographs of West Virginia, 1934-1943 presents images of the state's northern and southern coalfields, the subsistence homestead projects of Arthurdale, Eleanor, and Tygart Valley, and various communities from Charleston to Clarksburg and Parkersburg to Elkins. With over one hundred and fifty images by ten FSA photographers, including Walker Evans, Marion Post Wolcott, Arthur Rothstein, and Ben Shahn, this collection is a remarkable proclamation of hardship, hope, endurance, and, above all, community. These photographs provide a glimpse into the everyday lives of West Virginians during the Great Depression and beyond.

Marion Post Wolcott

Author : Richard Jensen
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ISBN 13 : 9781973759546
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (595 download)

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Download or read book Marion Post Wolcott written by Richard Jensen and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-19 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marion Post Wolcott's work with the Farm Security Administration covered the end of the Great Depression and the beginning of the second world war; few photographers covered as much of the United States, with photos from the Mountain West, the Deep South, the Florida Coast and New England.

The Likes of Us

Author : Stuart Cohen
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN 13 : 1567923402
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (679 download)

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Download or read book The Likes of Us written by Stuart Cohen and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 2009 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Housed at the Library of Congress, the archives of the Farm Security Administration constitute an essential visual record of American life from the late 1920s through the onset of the Second World War. Guided by the adroit hands and watchful eyes of the master photo editor Roy Stryker, the FSA archive includes the work of dozens of photographers, from acknowledged giants like Walker Evans, Ben Shahn, and Dorothea Lange to Marion Post Wolcott and Russell Lee, whose names and work may be less familiar. Stryker's approach to his photographers' assignments was a bracing mix of structure and improvisation. He sent his artists across the country to shoot for a few weeks, mostly in small towns and rural areas. They worked from what Stryker called shooting scripts - laundry lists of possible subjects and situations - but were always free to explore their own perspectives on a locale, its inhabitants, and their activities. When negatives and prints arrived, Stryker would guide his artists with suggestions, advice, and sharp-eyed criticism, all designed to elicit their best work. This book collects work from nine of these trips - Evans in Louisana and Alabama, Shahn in West Virginia, Lange in California, and others - uniting them with Stryker's shooting scripts, letters, and other relevant archival documents. What emerges, beyond the images themselves, is a complex and vital overview of the FSA at work, not just the work, but how the work evolved and matured under Stryker's guidance. The book concludes with photographs of New Orleans, the only city photographed in depth by the FSA artists. Reproduced in duotone, the 175 photographs in The Likes of Us, all printed from the original negatives at the Library of Congress, offer a rare opportunity not only to see a choice selection of famous and little-known images but also to understand the working of one of the government's most original and creative pre-war initiatives.

Marion Post Wolcott

Author : Forrest Jack Hurley
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Marion Post Wolcott written by Forrest Jack Hurley and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the distinguished and much-praised group of photographers who worked for the Farm Security Administration during the depression, Marion Post Wolcott has been, until recently, relatively unknown. In this definitive biography, F. Jack Hurley shows her to be a photographer of great skill, sensitivity, vision, and humanity. He also demonstrates that her contribution to the great documentary file assembled at the FSA under the direction of Roy Stryker is unique. In addition to the now-classic images of sharecroppers and tenant farmer families, made by all the photographers, Marion Post Wolcott did studies of the affluent--relaxing on Florida beaches, shopping in resort communities, attending horse races and charity balls. Often on her own initiative, and in between the massive assignments she got from Washington, Marion Post Wolcott made innumerable photographs of the contrasts, not just the dark side, of the depression, and she did it with wit and compassion. Using the considerable correspondence between Marion Post Wolcott and Roy Stryker, Hurley presents a revealing glimpse of what is was like--the rewards and numerous travails--to be a young woman traveling alone through the backcountry and in some of the roughest of this country's rural sections, as well as in cities like Miami and Memphis. --jacket.

Hard Luck Blues

Author : Rich Remsberg
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252056205
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Hard Luck Blues written by Rich Remsberg and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2024-04-22 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Showcasing American music and music making during the Great Depression, Hard Luck Blues presents more than two hundred photographs created by the New Deal's Farm Security Administration photography program. With an appreciation for the amateur and the local, FSA photographers depicted a range of musicians sharing the regular music of everyday life, from informal songs in migrant work camps, farmers' homes, barn dances, and on street corners to organized performances at church revivals, dance halls, and community festivals. Captured across the nation from the northeast to the southwest, the images document the last generation of musicians who learned to play without the influence of recorded sound, as well as some of the pioneers of Chicago's R & B scene and the first years of amplified instruments. The best visual representation of American roots music performance during the Depression era, Hard Luck Blues features photographs by Jack Delano, Dorothea Lange, Russell Lee, Arthur Rothstein, Ben Shahn, Marion Post Wolcott, and others. Photographer and image researcher Rich Remsberg breathes life into the images by providing contextual details about the persons and events captured, in some cases drawing on interviews with the photographers' subjects. Also included are a foreword by author Nicholas Dawidoff and an afterword by music historian Henry Sapoznik. Published in association with the Library of Congress.

A Vision Shared

Author : Hank O'Neal
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783958291812
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (918 download)

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Download or read book A Vision Shared written by Hank O'Neal and published by . This book was released on 2018-05 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring the indelible work of the eleven photographers who worked for the Farm Security Administration ? perhaps the finest photographic team assembled in the twentieth century ? A Vision Shared: A Classic Portrait of America and Its People 1935?1943 was published in 1976 to great acclaim, and was named one of the hundred most important books of the decade by the Association of American Publishers. John Collier, Jack Delano, Walker Evans, Theo Jung, Dorothea Lange, Russell Lee, Carl Mydans, Arthur Rothstein, Ben Shahn, John Vachon and Marion Post Wolcott were invited by Hank O?Neal to choose the best of their own work, and provide commentary.0For the fortieth anniversary edition of this remarkable volume, all of the photographs, text and historical material that made up the original edition have been carefully reproduced, followed by a new afterword by O?Neal detailing the events that followed the book?s initial release.

More American Photographs

Author : CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
Publisher : California College of the Arts
ISBN 13 : 9780980205589
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (55 download)

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Download or read book More American Photographs written by CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts and published by California College of the Arts. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "12 contemporary photographers were commissioned to travel the United States and document its land and people. Selections from the bodies of work they created were presented at the Wattis Institute alongside a number of photographs from the Farm Security Administration, whose photographers had, some 80 years earlier, received similar instructions to travel the country and document the America they saw"--P. 11.

MARION POST WOLCOTT

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 8 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (816 download)

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Download or read book MARION POST WOLCOTT written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ben Shahn's American Scene

Author : John Raeburn
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252056183
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Ben Shahn's American Scene written by John Raeburn and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2024-04-22 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The paintings, murals, and graphics of Ben Shahn (1898-1969) have made him one of the most heralded American artists of the twentieth century, but during the 1930s he was also among the nation's premier photographers. Much of his photographic work was sponsored by the New Deal's Farm Security Administration, where his colleagues included Dorothea Lange and Walker Evans. Ben Shahn's American Scene: Photographs, 1938 presents one hundred superb photographs from his most ambitious FSA project, a survey of small-town life in the Depression. John Raeburn's accompanying text illuminates the thematic and formal significance of individual photographs and reveals how, taken together, they address key cultural and political issues of the years leading up to World War II. Shahn's photographs highlight conflicts between traditional values and the newer ones introduced by modernity as represented by the movies, chain stores, and the tantalizing allure of consumer goods, and they are particularly rich in observation about the changes brought about by Americans' universal reliance on the automobile. They also explore the small town's standing as the nation's symbol of democratic community and expose the discriminatory social and racial practices that subverted this ideal in 1930s America.

The Photographs of John Vachon

Author : John Vachon
Publisher : Giles
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Photographs of John Vachon written by John Vachon and published by Giles. This book was released on 2010 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 50 evocative images selected from Vachon's work in the Library of Congress's collection.