Children of the Depression - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0253340314 ISBN 13: 9780253340313

Casa editrice: Indiana Univ Pr, 2001

Riassunto

A poignant photographic tour of the Great Depression features images of children at play, at school, and at home from across the country, all taken by Depression-era FSA photographers.

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L'autore:

Kathleen Thompson is co-author with Darlene Clark Hine of A Shining Thread of Hope: The History of Black Women in America and co-editor with Hilary Mac Austin of The Face of Our Past: Images of Black Women from Colonial America to the Present. She also co-authored, with Andra Medea, the feminist classic Against Rape (1974). With Diane Epstein, she co-authored Feeding on Dreams, an expose of the diet industry, published in 1994.

Thompson was a major contributor to Black Women in America and is editor-in-chief of Encyclopedia of Black Women. She has worked for the past twenty years in education and publishing and is the author of more than one hundred books for juveniles, including Portrait of America, a 53 volume set of books to accompany Turner Broadcasting’s television series of that name. She was also co-founder and, for a number of years, president of a Chicago educational development house, Sense and Nonsense, Inc.

She has received numerous awards for her work, including Best Books for Youth from the ALA in 1974 and the Gold Camera Award from the U.S. Industrial Film Festival, but the one she treasures most is the ban on Against Rape by the apartheid government of South Africa.

Hilary Mac Austin is co-editor with Kathleen Thompson of The Face of Our Past: Images of Black Women from Colonial America to the Present. She was the photo researcher for A Shining Thread of Hope: The History of Black Women in America by Kathleen Thompson and Darlene Clark Hine (1996); the American Jewish Desk Reference (2000); and Jewish Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia (1998).

Austin has been a writer and photo researcher for ten years, working with the Philip Lief Group; Sense and Nonsense, Inc.; Visual Education Corporation; SRA (Science Research Associates); Bantam/Doubleday/Dell; Carlson Publishing; and others. Her favorite project of the last few years was acting as technical director for a production of Hamlet in Rwanda under the auspices o

Product Description:

Some of the most famous of the Farm Security Administration photographers capture the spirit and grit of children in poignant images of their lives at work, at play, at school, and at home during the Great Depression. This book is a collection of photographs of children taken during the Great Depression by some of the most famous photographers of the Farm Security Administration. Spanning the period from 1930-1945, images by FSA photographers such as Dorothea Lange, Marion Post Wolcott, Arthur Rothstein, and John Vachon capture the spirit of these children in many aspects of their lives. The photos represent children of diverse social strata and ethnicity and are located in all regions of the country. At the same time they communicate sameness in how children approach economic adversity by improvisation and socialisation. Although the graphics, 120-150 in all, are the defining feature of the book, compelling quotes transcribed by social workers of the era are interspersed throughout. The black and white images are arranged categorically; each chapter depicting a specific element of their daily lives. While the book will appeal to lovers of great photography, it may also serve as graphic representation for post baby-boomers of what might have happened in the lives of parents and grandparents to clarify their values and aspirations.

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• Editore: Indiana Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0253340314
• ISBN 13: 9780253340313
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 193
• Redattore: Thompson Kathleen, Mac Austin Hilary