Children of the Depression

by Kathleen Thompson

Book Overview

During the Depression, Roy Emerson Stryker, head of the Farm Security Administration Historical Section, hired some of the best photographers in the United States--including Dorothea Lange, Gordon Parks, Walker Evans, Ben Shahn, Marion Post Walcott, John Delano, John Vachon, and Arthur Rothstein--to record the state of the country during its direst days. While Stryker made many demands on his photographers, he also gave them a great deal of freedom...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253340314
• ISBN13: 9780253340313
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 11.8" x 10.7"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher