Omen : phantasmagoria at the Farm Security Administration Archive 1935-1942 : excavations at the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs of the New York Public Library / photographs by Russell Lee, Dorothea Lange, Ben Shahn, Walker Evans, Carl Mydans, Arthur Rothstein, Gordon Parks ; concept and selection by León Muñoz Santini, Jorge Panchoaga ; edited by León Muñoz Santini, Pablo Ortíz Monasterio ; texts by Lucy Ives, Paloma Celis Carbajal.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ives, Lucy, 1980- Author.

Celis Carbajal, Paloma, author of afterword.

Contributor:

Lee, Russell, 1903-1986, Photographer.

Lange, Dorothea, Photographer.

Shahn, Ben, 1898-1969, Photographer.

Evans, Walker, 1903-1975, Photographer.

Mydans, Carl, Photographer.

Rothstein, Arthur, 1915-1985, Photographer.

Parks, Gordon, 1912-2006, Photographer.

Muñoz Santini, León, Editor.

Ortiz Monasterio, Pablo, Editor.

New York Public Library. Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints, and Photographs, Repository.

Local Philadelphia: Ulises Bookstore Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

New York Public Library. Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints, and Photographs--Photograph collections. .

New York Public Library.

United States. Farm Security Administration--Photograph collections.

United States.

Black-and-white photography--United States--20th century.

Black-and-white photography.

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

Documentary photography.

Dust Bowl Era, 1931-1939--Pictorial works.

Dust Bowl Era, 1931-1939.

Depressions--1935-1945--United States--Pictorial works.

Depressions.

United States--Rural conditions--Pictorial works.

Poverty--United States--Pictorial works.

Poverty.

Farm life--United States--Pictorial works.

Farm life.

Photography--History--20th century.

Photography.

Photograph collections--New York (State)--New York.

Photograph collections.

New York Public Library. Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints, and Photographs.

United States. Farm Security Administration.

Genre:

Black-and-white photography.

Documentary photography.

Illustrated works.

Physical Description:

158 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : chiefly illustrations (black and white), portraits (black and white) ; 34 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Phantasmagoria at the Farm Security Administration Archive 1935-1944 : excavations at the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs of the New York Public Library

Place of Publication:

Mexico City : Gato Negro Ediciones ; Barcelona : Editiorial RM, 2024.

Summary:

Drawing from approximately 40,000 works of the Farm Security Administration Photographic Archive (1935-42) housed at the New York Public Library, Omen reviews and reframes this landmark project of modern American documentary photography. The monumental project features works by storied photographers such as Russell Lee, Dorothea Lange, Ben Shahn, Walker Evans, Carl Mydans, Arthur Rothstein, Gordon Parks and Jack Delano. Many of the more iconic images that arose from this initiative were instrumental in constructing a hegemonic narrative of triumph against adversity in Depression-era America. In scrutinizing the backgrounds and secondary characters of some lesser-known photographs, however, a more turbulent story emerges. Omen is co-edited by Mexican artists León Muñoz Santini and Jorge Panchoaga, providing a fresh perspective on this quintessentially American study. The image sequence amplifies the eerie details in enlarged, stark black-and-white images, creatively cropped and abutted together to form insidious connections. These hidden stories are premonitions of the visible and invisible specters of systemic injustice that characterize American society, their cycles renewing with each successive generation. Thus, Omen at once serves as a mirror for the anguished reality of today, and as a device for reflection on how historical and documentary photography is read and understood: taking the editorial gaze to its ultimate consequences. The book includes a narrative text by novelist and poet Lucy Ives. -Publisher.

Notes:

"Coda" by Paloma Celis Carbajal, Curator for Latin American, Iberian, and Latino Studies Collection at the New York Public Library (page 160).

Illustrations inside front and back folded paper wrappers.

"First edition: 2024. # 446"--Colophon.

ISBN:

9788419233103

8419233102

OCLC:

1437292661