Written by one of America's preeminent labor historians, this book is the definitive account of one of the most spectacular, captivating, complex and strangely neglected stories in Western history--the emergence of migratory farmworkers and the development of California agriculture. Street has systematically worked his way through a mountain of archival materials--more than 500 manuscript collections, scattered in 22 states, including Spain and Mexico--to follow the farmworker story from its beginnings on Spanish missions into the second decade of the twentieth century. The result is a...
Written by one of America's preeminent labor historians, this book is the definitive account of one of the most spectacular, captivating, complex and ...
As exploited and colonized people, California farmworkers have attracted such massive, overwhelming photographic scrutiny that today their story cannot be told, studied, or understood without engaging the photographic dimension. Although the work of Dorothea Lange and other photographers from the 1930s often comes to mind, virtually every photographer of consequence at some time, for some reason, photographed in the fields of the Golden State. This includes such unlikely twentieth-century artists as fashion photographer Richard Avedon and commercial photographer Max Yavno, along with the...
As exploited and colonized people, California farmworkers have attracted such massive, overwhelming photographic scrutiny that today their story canno...
Deftly weaving the remarkable diversity of field photography into this story of labour activism, 'Everyone Had Cameras' establishes a new history of California photography while chronicling the impact that this visual medium has has on a vast, dispossessed class of American workers.
Deftly weaving the remarkable diversity of field photography into this story of labour activism, 'Everyone Had Cameras' establishes a new history of C...
Before the film, Cesar Chavez, Chavez'slife was depicted in photographsby his confidant, Jon Lewis.
In the winter of 1966, twenty-eight-year-old ex-marineJon Lewis visited Delano, California, thecenter of the California grape strike. He thought he might stay awhile, then resume studying photography at San Francisco State University. He stayed for two years, becoming the United Farm Workers Union s semiofficial photographer and a close confidant of farmworker leader Cesar Chavez.
Surviving on a picket s wage of five dollars a week, Lewis photographed twenty-four hours a day...
Before the film, Cesar Chavez, Chavez'slife was depicted in photographsby his confidant, Jon Lewis.
