Trauma and Documentary Photography of the FSA: Volume 5

by Sara Blair and Eric Rosenberg

Book Overview

The latest volume in the Defining Moments in American Photography series, Trauma and Documentary Photography of the FSA proposes that we reconsider the work of the Farm Security Administration and its most beloved photographers in light of various forms of trauma in the 1930s. The authors offer new ways to understand this body of work by exploring a more variable idea of documentary photography than what the New Dealers proposed. Taking a critical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520265661
• ISBN13: 9780520265660
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 121 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 8.0"