Picturing a Nation: The Great Depression's Finest Photographers Introduce America to Itself

by Martin W Sandler and Martin W. Sandler

Book Overview

A National Book Award winner mines photographic gold to show--and tell--the story of the Great Depression.

In an exquisitely curated volume of 140 full-color and black-and-white photographs, Martin W. Sandler unpacks the United States Farm Security Administration's sweeping visual record of the Great Depression. In 1935, with the nation bent under unprecedented unemployment and economic hardship, the FSA sent ten photographers, including...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1536215252
• ISBN13: 9781536215250
• Release Date: November 2021
• Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 9.3" x 9.9"
• Age Range: 11 to 15 years
• Grade Range: Grades 6 to 10