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21 Cards in this Set
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Jacob RIIS, Lodgers in a Crowded Bayard StreetTenement—“Five Cents a Spot,” from Riis’ book How the Other Half Lives, 1890 |
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Jacob RIIS, Sewing and Starving in an Elizabeth Street Attic, 1890,
from Riis’ book How the Other Half Lives |
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RIIS, Bandit’s Roost, 1888
from How the Other Half Lives |
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Lewis HINE N.Y. Tenement Family Gets Fresh Air on a Hot Day c. 1910
Gelatin silver print |
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Lewis HINE, Breaker Boys in a Coal Mine, South Pittston, Pa., 1911, gelatin silver print |
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Lewis HINE, Ten-Year Old Spinner, North Carolina Cotton Mill, 1908-9, gelatin silver print |
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ROTHSTEIN, Dust Storm, Cimarron County, 1937, gelatin silver print |
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Resettlement Administration/ |
• New Deal-era (FDR) Gvt agency founded in 1935 to strike at causes of chronic rural poverty • period (~1931 to WWII) of economic & social upheaval • high unemployment, labor unrest, agricultural blight • internal migrations • RA renamed FSA in 1936 • RA goal to convert land to best possible use
• need to publicize agency’s activities to the public and Congress: power of visual images to frame issues and influence audiences |
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Historical Section |
• headed by Roy Stryker • photographers: Walker Evans, Arthur Rothstein, Dorothea Lange, Carl Mydans, Russell Lee • ~270,000 images of America and its people • filed in the Library of Congress under 12 major headings: •The Land; Towns and Cities; People, Homes, and Living Conditions; Transport; Work: Agriculture, Commerce, Manufacturing; War, Medicine, and Health; Religion; Intellectual and Creative Activity; Social and Personal Activity; Miscellaneous • photos published in Survey Graphic, Time, Fortune, Today, Nation’s Business, Literary Digest, Birth Control Review, Collier’s, Look, and U.S. Camera
• 23 exhibitions mounted |
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Finnegan, “Picturing Poverty” |
•What is Finnegan’s main argument?
•What does she use as support for her argument? |
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Arthur ROTHSTEIN
approximates reproduction in U.S. Camera 1936 |
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Arthur ROTHSTEIN |
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Dorothea LANGE |
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Dorothea LANGE |
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Walker Evans, Untitled [Negros standing in line for food at the camp for flood refugees, Forrest City, Arkansas], 1937 |
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Walker Evans, Untitled [Negros standing in line for food at the camp for flood refugees, Forrest City, Arkansas], 1937 |
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Walker EVANS, Tengle Children, Hale County, Alabama, Summer 1836 |
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Walker EVANS, Tengle Children, Hale County, Alabama, Summer 1836 |
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EVANS, Laura Minnie Lee Tengle, Hale County, Alabama, Summer 1936 |
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EVANS, Floyd Burroughs’s bedroom, Hale County, Alabama, 1936 |
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Evans, Washroom and dining area of Floyd Burrough’s home, Hale County, Alabama, 1936 |