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Picturing a Nation: The Great Depression's Finest Photographers Introduce America to Itself
By SANDLER, Martin W.
- ISBN
- 9781536215250
- Publisher
- Candlewick
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Starred Review on August 1, 2021 | Middle To High School
Gr 7 Up—This is a vivid account of the photographers the Farm Security Administration (FSA) tasked with documenting the work of FSA agents as they helped distressed farmers during the Great Depression. But these esteemed photographers, including Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, and Gordon Parks, soon found themselves telling a story of America. As the FSA's Roy Stryker wrote at the time: "The task has been to confront the people with each other, the urban with the rural, the inhabitants of one section with th...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
