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Title The bitter years : Edward Steichen and the Farm Security Administration Photographs / edited by Françoise Poos [essays by Jean Back... and others]

Publication Info. New York : Distributed Art Publishers, [2012]
©2012

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 Moore Stacks  TR820.5 .B578 2012    Available  ---
Description 288 pages : illustrations ; 32 cm
Note "'The Bitter Years'" was a seminal exhibition curated by Edward Steichen in 1962 at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. The show featured 208 images by photographers who worked under the aegis of the U.S. Farm Security Administration (FSA) in 1935-41, as part of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal... No proper catalogue was produced of the exhibition in 1962 so this book provides a unique opportunity to see all the photographs in a structure and sequence that reflected those devised by Steichen for the original show..." --From book jacket.
Contains photographs by Paul Carter, John Collier, Jr., Jack Delano, Walker Evans, Theo Jung, Dorothea Lange, Russell Lee, Carl Mydans, Arthur Rothstein, Ben Shahn, John Vachon, and Marion Post Wolcott.
Bibliography Contains bibliographical references (page 284) and index.
Contents Vantage point : "The bitter years" reconsidered / Jean Back -- Of power and politics : Steichen at MOMA / Ariane Pollet -- Testimony or instrument of propaganda : what is the role of photography? / Gabriel Bauret -- "A very living document of our age": constructing and deconstructing the FSA archive -- The château d'eau : a water tower as cultural reservoir / Antoinette Lorang -- "The Bitter Years" : The plates.
Subject Documentary photography -- United States -- History -- Exhibitions.
Documentary photography.
United States.
History.
Documentary photography -- United States -- History -- Pictorial works.
Genre/Form Pictorial works.
Subject New Deal, 1933-1939 -- Exhibitions.
New Deal, 1933-1939.
New Deal, 1933-1939 -- Pictorial works.
Depressions -- 1929 -- United States -- Pictorial works.
Depressions.
Chronological Term 1929
Subject Depressions -- 1929 -- United States -- Exhibitions.
United States. Farm Security Administration -- Exhibitions.
United States. Farm Security Administration.
United States. Farm Security Administration -- Pictorial works.
United States -- Social conditions -- 1933-1945 -- Exhibitions.
Social conditions.
Chronological Term 1933-1945
Subject United States -- Social conditions -- 1933-1945 -- Pictorial works.
United States -- Rural conditions -- Exhibitions.
Rural conditions.
United States -- Rural conditions -- Pictorial works.
United States -- Economic conditions -- 1918-1945 -- Pictorial works.
Economic conditions.
Chronological Term 1918-1945
Subject United States -- Economic conditions -- 1918-1945 -- Exhibitions.
Steichen, Edward, 1879-1973.
Steichen, Edward, 1879-1973.
United States. Farm Security Administration.
Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
Photography -- History -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.
Photography.
Chronological Term 20th century
Genre/Form Exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs.
Illustrated works.
Illustrated works.
Added Author Poos, Françoise.
Steichen, Edward, 1879-1973.
Back, Jean.
Château d'Eau (Dudelange, Luxembourg)
ISBN 9781935202868
1935202863