Trauma and Documentary Photography of the FSA - Blair/Rosenberg
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This book looks at the documentary photography commissioned by the Farm Security Administration (FSA) in the 1930s - works by Walker Evans, Ben Shahn, and Aaron Siskind, among others. Essays by the literary scholar Sara Blair and the art historian Eric Rosenberg delve deeply into the conceptions of trauma generally associated with the Great Depression. While the FSA photographers are often understood as socially conscious artists who intended to publicize the traumas suffered by average Americans during the Depression, the co-authors address how trauma and photography fit together and how, in…mehr

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This book looks at the documentary photography commissioned by the Farm Security Administration (FSA) in the 1930s - works by Walker Evans, Ben Shahn, and Aaron Siskind, among others. Essays by the literary scholar Sara Blair and the art historian Eric Rosenberg delve deeply into the conceptions of trauma generally associated with the Great Depression. While the FSA photographers are often understood as socially conscious artists who intended to publicize the traumas suffered by average Americans during the Depression, the co-authors address how trauma and photography fit together and how, in the midst of that uneasy alliance, competing ideas of the documentary form took shape.
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Autorenporträt
Sara Blair is Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan and author of Henry James and the Writing of Race and Nation (Cambridge, 2009).Eric Rosenberg is Associate Professor of Art and Art History at Tufts University and author of Trauma and Visuality in Modernity (Dartmouth, 2006)