Picturing Migrants: The Grapes of Wrath and New Deal Documentary Photography Volume 18

by James R. Swensen

Book Overview

As time passes, personal memories of the Great Depression die with those who lived through the desperate 1930s. In the absence of firsthand knowledge, John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath and the photographs produced for the New Deal's Farm Security Administration (FSA) now provide most of the images that come to mind when we think of the 1930s. That novel and those photographs, as this book shows, share a history. Fully exploring this...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806191554
• ISBN13: 9780806191553
• Release Date: September 2022
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.4" x 10.9"