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- catalog abstract ""Between 1935 and 1942, photographers for the New Deal's Resettlement Administration-Farm Security Administration (FSA) captured in powerfully moving images the travail of the Great Depression and the ways of a people confronting radical social change. Those who speak of the special achievement of FSA photography usually have in mind such white icons as Dorothea Lange's "Migrant Mother" or Walker Evans's Alabama sharecroppers. But some six thousand printed images, a tenth of FSA's total, included black figures or their dwellings. At last, Nicholas Natanson reveals both the innovative treatment of African Americans in FSA photographs and the agency's highly problematic use of these images once they had been created." "While mono-dimensional treatments of blacks were common in public and private photography of the period, such FSA photographers as Ben Shahn, Arthur Rothstein, and Jack Delano were well informed concerning racial problems and approached blacks in a manner that avoided stereotypes, right-wing as well as left-wing. In addition, rather than focusing exclusively on FSA-approved agency projects involving blacks - politically the safest course - they boldly addressed wider social and cultural themes." "This study employs a variety of methodological tools to explore the political and administrative forces that worked against documentary coverage of particularly sensitive racial issues. Moreover, Natanson shows that those who drew on the FSA photo files for newspapers, magazines, books, and exhibitions often entirely omitted images of black people and their environment or used devices such as cropping and captioning to diminish the true range of the FSA photographers' vision."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog contributor b3779441.
- catalog coverage "United States Social conditions 1933-1945.".
- catalog created "c1992.".
- catalog date "1992".
- catalog date "c1992.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1992.".
- catalog description ""Between 1935 and 1942, photographers for the New Deal's Resettlement Administration-Farm Security Administration (FSA) captured in powerfully moving images the travail of the Great Depression and the ways of a people confronting radical social change. Those who speak of the special achievement of FSA photography usually have in mind such white icons as Dorothea Lange's "Migrant Mother" or Walker Evans's Alabama sharecroppers. But some six thousand printed images, a tenth of FSA's total, included black figures or their dwellings. At last, Nicholas Natanson reveals both the innovative treatment of African Americans in FSA photographs and the agency's highly problematic use of these images once they had been created." "While mono-dimensional treatments of blacks were common in public and private photography of the period, such FSA photographers as Ben Shahn, Arthur Rothstein, and Jack Delano were well informed concerning racial problems and approached blacks in a manner that avoided stereotypes, right-wing as well as left-wing. In addition, rather than focusing exclusively on FSA-approved agency projects involving blacks - politically the safest course - they boldly addressed wider social and cultural themes." "This study employs a variety of methodological tools to explore the political and administrative forces that worked against documentary coverage of particularly sensitive racial issues. Moreover, Natanson shows that those who drew on the FSA photo files for newspapers, magazines, books, and exhibitions often entirely omitted images of black people and their environment or used devices such as cropping and captioning to diminish the true range of the FSA photographers' vision."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-298) and index.".
- catalog description "Politics and culture : new deals, old deals -- FSA photography : administrative contexts, quantitative measures -- The photo-series : Ben Shahn's southern meditations -- The photo-series : Arthur Rothstein and the Missouri Bootheel -- The photo-series : Russell Lee, Chicago, and the 1940s -- The FSA Black image in the marketplace.".
- catalog extent "xii, 305 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0870497235 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0870497243 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "1992".
- catalog issued "c1992.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press,".
- catalog spatial "United States Social conditions 1933-1945.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "973/.0496073 20".
- catalog subject "African Americans Pictorial works.".
- catalog subject "Documentary photography United States History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "E185.6 .N245 1992".
- catalog subject "United States. Farm Security Administration.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Politics and culture : new deals, old deals -- FSA photography : administrative contexts, quantitative measures -- The photo-series : Ben Shahn's southern meditations -- The photo-series : Arthur Rothstein and the Missouri Bootheel -- The photo-series : Russell Lee, Chicago, and the 1940s -- The FSA Black image in the marketplace.".
- catalog title "The Black image in the New Deal : the politics of FSA photography / Nicholas Natanson.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "Pictorial works. fast".
- catalog type "text".