Chicago & Downstate: Illinois as Seen by the Farm Security Administration Photographers, 1936-1943

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Year: 1989
Pages: 194
Binding Paperback
ISBN 252060784

Product Code: 788194305

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Robert L. Reid (ed); Larry A. Viskochil (ed). The photographs in this collection, drawn from the most extensive photodocumentary project ever conceived, reflect the wide diversity of what has been called the nation’s most representative state. The renowned photographers of Roy Stryker’s Farm Security Admin. staff traveled throughout the state, focusing on the people of Illinois at home, at work, & at play. The editors selected 162 photos for this collection from the more than 2,400 taken in Illinois, by such photographers as John Vachon, Russell Lee, Arthur Rothstein, Jack Delano, Dorothea Lange, Esther Bubley, Theodor Jung, Carl Mydans, Ann Rosenor, & Edwin Rosskam.

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