Author: Hurley, F. Jack
Title: Portrait of Decade: Roy Stryker and the Development of Documentary Photography in the Thirties
Description: Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, 1974. 1974 printing. Hardcover. Tac cloth with illustrated dustjacket. 196 pp. Profuse bw plates. Historical account of the birth of American documentary photography. Farm Security Administration head, Roy Stryker and his staff of remarkable photographers, including Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Arthur Rothstein, Ben Shahn, Russell Lee, Carl Mydans, Marion Post Wolcott, John Collier, Jr. Jack Delano, Jon Vachon, and others. Contents as follows: A new force in education and photography : Roy Emerson Stryker -- Changing political winds -- Groping for directions -- Stryker and the photographers : the early years -- A time of broadening -- Putting the pictures to work -- 1941-1943 : the impact of war. VG/VG uncommon in hardcover .

Keywords: Photography ; Documentary Photography ; ;


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