From 1936 to 1943, John Vachon travelled across America as part of the Farm Security Administration photography project, documenting the desperate world of the Great Depression. This collection offers a record of his vision and of America's land and people.
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"From 1936 to 1943 John Vachon traveled across America as part of the Farm Security Administration's photography project, documenting the desperate world of the Great Depression and also the efforts at resistance - from stoic determination to strikes. This collection, the first …
"Almost immediately after the invention of photography, Scottish photographers took their clunky cameras on the road to capture the stories of peoples and communities touched by the forces of British imperialism. For the next thirty years, their journeys would take them far from…
At the shoreline of the fisherfolk -- Wilderness of one's own -- Upriver and down. "Almost immediately after the invention of photography, Scottish photographers took their clunky cameras on the road to capture the stories of peoples and communities touched by the forces of Bri…
"Almost immediately after the invention of photography, Scottish photographers took their clunky cameras on the road to capture the stories of peoples and communities touched by the forces of British imperialism. For the next thirty years, their journeys would take them far from…
"Almost immediately after the invention of photography, Scottish photographers took their clunky cameras on the road to capture the stories of peoples and communities touched by the forces of British imperialism. For the next thirty years, their journeys would take them far from…
"For those people who care deeply about photography but regard trends in contemporary discourse with skepticism or impatience, Robert Adams must appear as a kind of godsend. First in Beauty in Photography (1981) and now in Why People Photograph, Adams, a respected photographer w…
This critically acclaimed work brings us a new selection of poignant essays by master photographer Robert Adams. In this volume, Adams evinces his firm belief in the importance of art. Photographers "may or may not make a living by photography," he writes, "but they are alive by…
Vast tracts of criticism have been devoted to Robert Mapplethorpe's infamous persona as a sexual outlaw and to his more notorious photographs, especially his S and M imagery. In 'Mapplethorpe and the Flower', Derek Conrad Murray refocuses this critical gaze and produces the firs…
![Nadar [published on the occasion of the exhibition held at Musee d'Orsay, Paris, 7 June - 11 September, 1994 ; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 14 April - 9 July, 1995]](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/isbn/0870997351-M.jpg?default=false)
