The Black image in the New Deal : the politics of FSA photography / Nicholas Natanson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Natanson, Nicholas, 1955-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Pictorial works.

African Americans.

Documentary photography--United States--History--20th century.

Documentary photography.

United States.

History.

United States. Farm Security Administration.

United States--Social conditions--1933-1945.

Social conditions.

Genre:

Pictorial works.

Illustrated works.

Physical Description:

xii, 305 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, [1992]

Summary:

This study employs a variety of methodological tools to explore the political and administrative forces that worked against documentary coverage of particularly sensitive racial issues. Moreover, Natanson shows that those who drew on the FSA photo files for newspapers, magazines, books, and exhibitions often entirely omitted images of black people and their environment or used devices such as cropping and captioning to diminish the true range of the FSA photographer's vision.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [291]-298) and index.

ISBN:

0870497235

0870497243

OCLC:

23463727