Bound for Glory : America in Color 1939-45 - Paul Hendrickson
FSA/OWI Collection : The Library of Congress
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Between the years 1935 and 1942, a vast number of images of America were taken by photographers hired by the Farm Security Administration (FSA). The FSA had been established as a relief organization in order to help rural Americans out of poverty and into economic self-sufficiency and prosperity. The charge of the photographers was to document the people and places the FSA had set out to help. In 1942, the FSA's photography unit was transferred to the Office of War Information (OWI), whose primary purpose was to document America's mobilization during the early years of World War II, concentrating on such topics as aircraft factories and women in the workforce. Today, this collection of photographs consists of about 108,000 images, among them some of the most famous black-and-white documentary images from the first half of the twentieth century. Yet few people know that, along with the vast number of black-and-white photographs taken, color images were also made, by photographers such as Marion Post Walcott, R...
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Harry N. Abrams: Bound in boards with dustwrapper, folio,191 pp., introduction by Paul Hendrickson, colour photographs of the farm security administration and the office of war information, 30x21x2 cm, traces of use on title page, in very good condition. [Categorie: Photography] [Pagina's: 191] [Titel: Bound for Glory.]
