Another country: How the Farm Security Administration introduced America to Americans
Amid the ravages of the Great Depression, the United States Farm Security Administration (FSA) was first founded in 1935 to address the country s rural poverty. Its efforts focused on improving the lives of sharecroppers, tenants, and very poor landowning farmers, with resettlement and collectivization programs, as well as modernized farming methods. In a parallel documentation program, the FSA hired a number of photographers and writers to record the lives of the...
Another country: How the Farm Security Administration introduced America to Americans
More than 300 photographs by Lewis W. Hine, whose trailblazing documentary images of early 20th century working conditions helped to transform United States labor laws. This book spans all eras of Hine's work, including his pictures of child laborers, of new immigrants on Ellis Island, and of the construction of the Empire State Building.
More than 300 photographs by Lewis W. Hine, whose trailblazing documentary images of early 20th century working conditions helped to transform United ...
The first woman to use the fledgling medium of photography for scientific purposes, Anna Atkins captured the delicacy of algae and ferns in her albums: pioneering examples of photographic practice in their own right. For the first time, this edition reprints her works British Algae and Cyanotypes of British and Foreign Ferns in their entirety.
The first woman to use the fledgling medium of photography for scientific purposes, Anna Atkins captured the delicacy of algae and ferns in her albums...
