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Proposes that we reconsider the work of the Farm Security Administration and its most beloved photographers in light of various forms of trauma in the 1930s. This title offers ways to understand this body of work by exploring a more variable idea of documentary photography than what the New Dealers proposed.

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"An excellent contribution; moving, considered, articulate and painfully relevant." -- Mark Welch, PhD Metapsychology Online Review "Farm Security Administration work from the 1930s, so often viewed in political and socioeconomic terms, is here reconsidered in light of new theories on how personal and collective trauma may have affected photographers." Art In America

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Introduction Anthony W. Lee Against Trauma: Documentary and Modern Times on the Lower East Side Sara Blair With Trauma: Walker Evans and the Failure to Document Eric Rosenberg Notes Index

Trauma and Documentary Photography

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    A Paperback / softback by Sara Blair, Eric Rosenberg, Anthony W. Lee

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      Publisher: University of California Press
      Publication Date: 01/05/2012
      ISBN13: 9780520265660, 978-0520265660
      ISBN10: 0520265661
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Proposes that we reconsider the work of the Farm Security Administration and its most beloved photographers in light of various forms of trauma in the 1930s. This title offers ways to understand this body of work by exploring a more variable idea of documentary photography than what the New Dealers proposed.

      Trade Review
      "An excellent contribution; moving, considered, articulate and painfully relevant." -- Mark Welch, PhD Metapsychology Online Review "Farm Security Administration work from the 1930s, so often viewed in political and socioeconomic terms, is here reconsidered in light of new theories on how personal and collective trauma may have affected photographers." Art In America

      Table of Contents
      Introduction Anthony W. Lee Against Trauma: Documentary and Modern Times on the Lower East Side Sara Blair With Trauma: Walker Evans and the Failure to Document Eric Rosenberg Notes Index

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