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- catalog abstract ""From 1936 to 1943 John Vachon traveled across America as part of the Farm Security Administration's photography project, documenting the desperate world of the Great Depression and also the efforts at resistance - from stoic determination to strikes. This collection, the first to feature Vachon's work, offers a record of this extraordinary photographer's vision and of America's land and people as the country moved from the depths of the Depression to the dramatic mobilization for World War II. Vachon's portraits of white and black Americans are among the most affecting that FSA photographers produced; and his portrayals of the American landscape, from rural scenes to small towns and urban centers, present a remarkable visual account of these pivotal years, in a style that is transitional from Walker Evans to Robert Frank." "Vachon nurtured a lifelong ambition to be a writer and the intimate and revealing letters he wrote from the field to his wife back home reflect vividly on American conditions, on movies and jazz, on landscape, and on his job fulfilling the directives from Washington to capture the heart of America. Together these letters and photographs along with journal entries and other writings by Vachon constitute a multifaceted biography of this remarkable photographer and a unique look at the years he captured in such unforgettable images."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b13021131.
- catalog contributor b13021132.
- catalog coverage "United States Rural conditions Pictorial works.".
- catalog coverage "United States Social conditions 1933-1945 Pictorial works.".
- catalog created "c2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "c2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2003.".
- catalog description ""From 1936 to 1943 John Vachon traveled across America as part of the Farm Security Administration's photography project, documenting the desperate world of the Great Depression and also the efforts at resistance - from stoic determination to strikes. This collection, the first to feature Vachon's work, offers a record of this extraordinary photographer's vision and of America's land and people as the country moved from the depths of the Depression to the dramatic mobilization for World War II.".
- catalog description ""Vachon nurtured a lifelong ambition to be a writer and the intimate and revealing letters he wrote from the field to his wife back home reflect vividly on American conditions, on movies and jazz, on landscape, and on his job fulfilling the directives from Washington to capture the heart of America. Together these letters and photographs along with journal entries and other writings by Vachon constitute a multifaceted biography of this remarkable photographer and a unique look at the years he captured in such unforgettable images."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-332) and index.".
- catalog description "Vachon's portraits of white and black Americans are among the most affecting that FSA photographers produced; and his portrayals of the American landscape, from rural scenes to small towns and urban centers, present a remarkable visual account of these pivotal years, in a style that is transitional from Walker Evans to Robert Frank."".
- catalog extent "x, 344 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0520223780 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "c2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Berkeley : University of California Press,".
- catalog spatial "United States Rural conditions Pictorial works.".
- catalog spatial "United States Social conditions 1933-1945 Pictorial works.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "770/.92 B 21".
- catalog subject "Documentary photography United States History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Photographers United States Correspondence.".
- catalog subject "TR140.V33 A4 2003".
- catalog subject "United States. Farm Security Administration.".
- catalog subject "Vachon, John, 1914-1975 Correspondence.".
- catalog title "John Vachon's America : photographs and letters from the Depression to World War II / John Vachon ; edited, with introductory texts, by Miles Orvell.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "Pictorial works. fast".
- catalog type "Records and correspondence. fast".
- catalog type "text".