The Bitter Years: The Farm Security Administration Photographs Through the Eyes of Edward Steichen - Couverture rigide

 
9780500544181: The Bitter Years: The Farm Security Administration Photographs Through the Eyes of Edward Steichen
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ISBN 10 : 0500544182 ISBN 13 : 9780500544181
Editeur : Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2012

Synopsis

The Bitter Years was the title of a seminal exhibition held in 1962 at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, curated by Edward Steichen, and 2012 marks its 50th anniversary. The show featured 209 images by photographers who worked under the aegis of the US Farm Security Administration (FSA) in 193541 as part of Roosevelts New Deal. The Great Depression of the 1930s defined a generation in modern American history and was still a vivid memory in 1962. The FSA, set up to combat rural poverty, included an ambitious photography project that launched many photographic careers, most notably those of Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange. The exhibition featured their work as well as that of ten other FSA photographers, including Ben Shahn, Carl Mydans and Arthur Rothstein. Their images are among the most remarkable in documentary photography testimonies of a people in crisis, hit by the full force of economic turmoil and the effects of drought and dust storms. The Bitter Years celebrates some of the most iconic photographs ofthe 20th century and, since no proper catalogue was produced at the time, provides a whole new insight into Steichens impact on the history of documentary photography.

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À propos de l?auteur

Franc oise Poos is a curator at the National Audio Visual Centre, Luxembourg. Ellen Handy is Chair of the Photography Department, City College of the City University, New York. Gabriel Bauret is the author of books on Colour Photography, Alexey Brodovitch and Peter Knapp. He has been artistic director of Le Mois de la Photo, Paris. Ariane Pollet wrote her doctorate at the University of Lausanne on Steichen's work at MoMA, New York. Antoinette Lorang received her doctorate at the University of Heidelberg.

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Éditeur
Thames & Hudson Ltd
Date d'édition
2012
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0500544182
ISBN 13 
9780500544181
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
288
Éditeur
Poos Francoise
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