Title & Author:

Documenting America, 1935-1943 / edited by Carl Fleischhauer and Beverly W. Brannan ; essays by Lawrence W. Levine and Alan Trachtenberg.

Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press in association with the Library of Congress, ©1988.

Description:

xi, 361 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm.

Series:

Approaches to American culture ; 2

Notes:
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-351) and index.
The historian and the icon : photography and the history of the American people in the 1930s and 1940s / Lawrence W. Levine -- From image to story : reading the file / Alan Trachtenberg -- Cotton pickers / Ben Shahn -- Omaha / John Vachon -- Migrant workers / Dorothea Lange -- New York City block / Walker Evans -- Tenant farmers / Arthur Rothstein --Salvation Army / Dorothea Lange -- Beach resort / Marion Post Wolcott -- FSA migratory labor camp / Arthur Rothstein -- Independence Day / Russell Lee -- Ella Watson, U.S. government charwoman / Gordon Parks -- Japanese relocation / Russell Lee -- Small town in wartime / Marjory Collins --Union Station / Jack Delano -- The Juan Lopez family / John Collier, Jr. -- Cross-country bus trip / Esther Bubley.

Summary:

Photographs by a team of photographers who traveled across the United States documenting America's experience of the Great Depression and World War II.

Resources:
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

0520062205 (alk. paper)
9780520062207 (alk. paper)
0520062213 (pbk.)
9780520062214 (pbk.)

Subject:

Documentary photography United States History 20th century.
Photographie documentaire États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle.
Documentary photography
Social conditions
Alltag
Bildband
Dokumentarfotografie
Maatschappij.
Cultuur.
Photographie documentaire États-Unis 20e siècle.
Documentary photography United States.
United States History 1933-1945 Pictorial works.
United States Social conditions 1933-1945 Pictorial works.
Egyesült Államok történet 1930-as évek forrás.
Egyesült Államok fotóalbum.
États-Unis Histoire 1933-1945 Ouvrages illustrés.
États-Unis Conditions sociales 1933-1945 Ouvrages illustrés.
United States
USA
États-Unis 1933-1945 Photographies.
États-Unis Conditions sociales 1933-1945 Photographies.
Documentary photography History 20th century United States
United States History Pictorial works 1933-1945
United States Social conditions Pictorial works 1933-1945

Form/genre:

illustrated books.
Illustrated works
History
Pictorial works
Books.
Bildband.
Ouvrages illustrés.

Added entries:

Fleischhauer, Carl.
Brannan, Beverly W., 1946-
Levine, Lawrence W.
Trachtenberg, Alan.
Approaches to American culture ; 2.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 46184
Call No.: ID:89-B5511
Status: Available