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Images of Depression-Era Louisiana: The FSA Photographs of Ben Shahn, Russell Lee, and Marion Post Wolcott

Images of Depression-Era Louisiana: The FSA Photographs of Ben Shahn, Russell Lee, and Marion Post Wolcott - Hardcover

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Availability:In StockContributor:Bryan Giemza, Maria Hebert-LeiterPublish date:2017-11-08Pages:160
Language:EnglishPublisher:LSU PressISBN-13:9780807167953ISBN-10:807167959UPC:9780807167953Book Category:Photography, Social Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:Regional Studies, United StatesBook Topic:State & LocalSize:9.84 x 9.80 x 0.67 inchesWeight:1.9709Product ID:SCGDF70ZC2

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...

Language:EnglishPublisher:LSU PressISBN-13:9780807167953ISBN-10:807167959UPC:9780807167953Book Category:Photography, Social Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:Regional Studies, United StatesBook Topic:State & LocalSize:9.84 x 9.80 x 0.67 inchesWeight:1.9709Product ID:SCGDF70ZC2

Bryan Giemza is director of the Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina Libraries. He is the author of Irish Catholic Writers and the Invention of the American South.

Originally from Thibodaux, Louisiana, Maria Hebert-Leiter teaches at Lycoming College in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. She is the author of Becoming Cajun, Becoming American: The Acadian in American Literature...
Publisher: LSU Press

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