Full name: Bound for Glory: America in Color 1939-43

Author: Paul Hendrickson Year: 2004 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780810943483 0810943484

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, Russell Lee, John Vachon, Arthur Rothstein, and Andreas Feininger. This book presents, for the first time, the best of these color photographs - introduced by National Book Awar Similar books: A New History of Photography by Michel Frizot Dear Friends by David Deitcher The Mind's Eye by Henri Cartier-Bresson The Art of Photography by Bruce Barnbaum The Photographer's Eye by John Szarkowski Learning to See Creatively by Bryan Peterson Within the Frame by David duChemin Digital Photography Masterclass by Tom Ang Master Lighting Guide for Portrait Photographers by Christopher Grey Exiles by Josef Koudelka The Nature of Photographs by Stephen Shore Photography and the Art of Seeing by Freeman Patterson Understanding Shutter Speed by Bryan Peterson Terra by Sebastião Salgado John Shaw's Nature Photography Field Guide by John Shaw The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan All Hell Let Loose by Max Hastings 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro with Complete Proof by J. A. Rogers Dreamers and Deceivers by Glenn Beck Twenty Million Tons Under the Sea by Daniel V. Gallery