"I was supposed to be taking pictures to show that this was a great
country and I was finding out it really was. . . . I didn't know it
at the time, but I was having a last look at America as it used to
be."--John Vachon Kansans of the 1930s and 1940s lived through more
sweeping changes than any other generation past or present.
Destructive forces of nature, an economy gone awry, and a
devastating--and ironically, economically renewing--war left the
world irrevocably altered. In this captivating collection, some of
America's best-known documentary photographers provide a valuable
glimpse into that tumultuous time. Constance Schulz has brought
together a diverse array of photographs from three extensive
documentary projects: the Farm Security Administration, the Office
of War Information, and Standard Oil of New Jersey. The result is a
unique visual record of American life by photographers Arthur
Rothstein, John Vachon, Russell Lee, Marion Post Wolcott, Jack
Delano, Edwin and Louise Rosskam, and Charles Rotkin. Collectively,
their work has immortalized the faces and emotions of FSA-aided
farmers and the harsh lives of coal miners, dust-bowl debris and
tumbleweeds, a failed bank and a thriving stockyard, locomotives
and Mexican-American railroad workers, oil derricks, wheat country,
black cavalry troops, and 4-H Club fairs. In his enlightening
introduction, environmental historian Donald Worster provides
historical context for the images. Examining state, national, and
international events from 1930 to 1950, he explores the
agricultural, business, social, political, and environmental
climates as well as the composition of the state's population and
its inevitable shift away from rural life toward urbanization and
industrialization. Schulz also supplies fundamental information on
the photographers and the photographic projects. Originally created
as a means to promote government and business programs, the FSA,
OWI, and Standard Oil photographs--most never before published--are
an excellent source for individuals and communities searching for a
visual record of their local heritage during two of the most
crucial decades in American history.
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