Main entry:

Delano, Jack, 1914-1997, author.

Title & Author:

Photographic memories / Jack Delano.

Publication:

Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, [1997]
©1997

Description:

xxiv, 221 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes index.
From a Ukrainian vilage to an American metropolis.-Music in the city of brotherly love.-Going underground -- ina Pennsylvania coal mine.-New York: in search of fame, fortune, and a job.-Working with Stryker and trying to understand the South.-From Florida to Maine on the trail of migrant farm laborers.-Washington: preparatiins for war.-Displaced persons -- a chance to go to the Caribbean.-Puerto Rico -- welcome to the tropics.-The Virgin Islands: blackouts and war jitters.-Back in Puerto Rico: poverty and dignity.-The war effort at home.-Secret mission to Peru.-B-29 bombers and bloody bodies in the South Pacific.-we win the war but lose a president.-Back where sugar is king.-Producing and directing films.-Managing a TV station -- a political turmoil.-Designing museums and books.

Summary:

In 1940, as a young photographer working for Roy Stryker's Historical Section of the Farm Security Administration (FSA), Jack Delano traveled the length of the eastern seaboard recording the struggles of migrant workers still living in the shadow of the Depression. Late the following year, with the nation on the verge of war, Stryker sent him on a three-month assignment in Puerto Rico where the people he met radiated humor and generosity despite poverty worse than any he had seen in the continental United States. Back on the mainland, Delano traveled across the country photographing the homefront contributions of ethnic and minority groups and spent a month documenting the mobilized railroad system on freight trains between Chicago and California.
After serving three years in the army, Delano settled in Puerto Rico, where for the last fifty years he has been a constant participant - as a photographer, filmmaker, television station director, book illustrator, cartoonist, and composer - in the island's cultural life.

ISBN:

1560987413 (alk. paper)
9781560987413 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Delano, Jack.
Delano, Jack, 1914-1997
Delano, Jack 1914-1997
Delano, Jack (Photograph)
Photographers Puerto Rico Biography.
Photographes Porto Rico Biographies.
Photographers
Puerto Rico

Form/genre:

Autobiographies.
Biographies
Autobiografie.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 192106
Call No.: ID TR140.D43.D43; ID:97-B3200
Status: Available