Sulky races at the Mercer County Fair, church suppers, sorghum
making, shooting marbles in the school yard, housing tobacco,
loafing at the courthouse -- here are 129 beautifully reproduced
images of who we were as Kentuckians not so long ago -- during the
Depression and the early years of World War II.
This collection is part of the remarkable series of photos shot
for the Farm Security Administration -- more than 125,000
photographs taken over a period of nine years by some of the best
American photographers of the time, including Ben Shahn, Marion
Post Wolcott, Russell Lee, John Vachon, and Arthur Rothstein.
To reintroduce us to that important slice of our history,
Beverly Brannan and David Horvath have selected a rich sampling
from among several thousand photos taken in Kentucky for the FSA.
They have added an extra dimension to the images by including in
their commentary excerpts from the photographers' own
correspondence and field notes.
Along with a lively introduction by the well-known Kentucky poet
Jim Wayne Miller, the text of A Kentucky Album helps us see these
photographs as art, as social history, and as an unforgettable
composite of the amazing diversity of culture, history, and
environment that have made Kentucky unique.
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