The Photographs of John Vachon
Author: John Vachon
Publisher: Giles
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 68
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK50 evocative images selected from Vachon's work in the Library of Congress's collection.
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POLAND 1946
Author: VACHON JOHN
Publisher: Smithsonian Books (DC)
Published: 1995-10-17
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJohn Vachon was in Poland to witness this transformation of almost mythic proportions. Assigned to cover United Nations relief efforts, this American photographer documented in images and letters a nation at the crossroads of the postwar East and West.
John Vachon’s America
Author: John Vachon
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2003-12-12
Total Pages: 714
ISBN-13: 0520925033
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom 1936 to 1943, John Vachon traveled across America as part of the Farm Security Administration photography project, documenting the desperate world of the Great Depression and also the efforts at resistance—from strikes to stoic determination. This collection, the first to feature Vachon's work, offers a stirring and elegant record of this extraordinary photographer's vision and of America's land and people as the country moved from the depths of the Depression to the dramatic mobilization for World War II. Vachon's portraits of white and black Americans are among the most affecting that FSA photographers produced; and his portrayals of the American landscape, from rural scenes to small towns and urban centers, present a remarkable visual account of these pivotal years, in a style that is transitional from Walker Evans to Robert Frank. Vachon nurtured a lifelong ambition to be a writer, and the intimate and revealing letters he wrote from the field to his wife back home reflect vividly on American conditions, on movies and jazz, on landscape, and on his job fulfilling the directives from Washington to capture the heart of America. Together, these letters and photographs, along with journal entries and other writings by Vachon, constitute a multifaceted biography of this remarkable photographer and a unique look at the years he captured in such unforgettable images.
Ben Shahn's American Scene
Author: John Raeburn
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2024-04-22
Total Pages: 333
ISBN-13: 0252056183
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe paintings, murals, and graphics of Ben Shahn (1898-1969) have made him one of the most heralded American artists of the twentieth century, but during the 1930s he was also among the nation's premier photographers. Much of his photographic work was sponsored by the New Deal's Farm Security Administration, where his colleagues included Dorothea Lange and Walker Evans. Ben Shahn's American Scene: Photographs, 1938 presents one hundred superb photographs from his most ambitious FSA project, a survey of small-town life in the Depression. John Raeburn's accompanying text illuminates the thematic and formal significance of individual photographs and reveals how, taken together, they address key cultural and political issues of the years leading up to World War II. Shahn's photographs highlight conflicts between traditional values and the newer ones introduced by modernity as represented by the movies, chain stores, and the tantalizing allure of consumer goods, and they are particularly rich in observation about the changes brought about by Americans' universal reliance on the automobile. They also explore the small town's standing as the nation's symbol of democratic community and expose the discriminatory social and racial practices that subverted this ideal in 1930s America.
Marilyn, August 1953
Author: John Vachon
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2010-01-01
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 1606600117
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAccompanied by original essays and facsimiles of handwritten letters by Vachon, presents dozens of candid photographs taken by the "Look" magazine photographer of Marilyn Monroe in the Canadian Rockies in 1953.
A Vision Shared
Author: Hank O'Neal
Publisher:
Published: 2018-05
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9783958291812
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFeaturing the indelible work of the eleven photographers who worked for the Farm Security Administration ? perhaps the finest photographic team assembled in the twentieth century ? A Vision Shared: A Classic Portrait of America and Its People 1935?1943 was published in 1976 to great acclaim, and was named one of the hundred most important books of the decade by the Association of American Publishers. John Collier, Jack Delano, Walker Evans, Theo Jung, Dorothea Lange, Russell Lee, Carl Mydans, Arthur Rothstein, Ben Shahn, John Vachon and Marion Post Wolcott were invited by Hank O?Neal to choose the best of their own work, and provide commentary.0For the fortieth anniversary edition of this remarkable volume, all of the photographs, text and historical material that made up the original edition have been carefully reproduced, followed by a new afterword by O?Neal detailing the events that followed the book?s initial release.
Documenting America, 1935-1943
Author: Lawrence W. Levine
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1988-10-27
Total Pages: 382
ISBN-13: 9780520062214
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPhotographs by a team of photographers who traveled across the United States documenting America's experience of the Great Depression and World War II.
The Likes of Us
Author: Stuart Cohen
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 1567923402
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHoused at the Library of Congress, the archives of the Farm Security Administration constitute an essential visual record of American life from the late 1920s through the onset of the Second World War. Guided by the adroit hands and watchful eyes of the master photo editor Roy Stryker, the FSA archive includes the work of dozens of photographers, from acknowledged giants like Walker Evans, Ben Shahn, and Dorothea Lange to Marion Post Wolcott and Russell Lee, whose names and work may be less familiar. Stryker's approach to his photographers' assignments was a bracing mix of structure and improvisation. He sent his artists across the country to shoot for a few weeks, mostly in small towns and rural areas. They worked from what Stryker called shooting scripts - laundry lists of possible subjects and situations - but were always free to explore their own perspectives on a locale, its inhabitants, and their activities. When negatives and prints arrived, Stryker would guide his artists with suggestions, advice, and sharp-eyed criticism, all designed to elicit their best work. This book collects work from nine of these trips - Evans in Louisana and Alabama, Shahn in West Virginia, Lange in California, and others - uniting them with Stryker's shooting scripts, letters, and other relevant archival documents. What emerges, beyond the images themselves, is a complex and vital overview of the FSA at work, not just the work, but how the work evolved and matured under Stryker's guidance. The book concludes with photographs of New Orleans, the only city photographed in depth by the FSA artists. Reproduced in duotone, the 175 photographs in The Likes of Us, all printed from the original negatives at the Library of Congress, offer a rare opportunity not only to see a choice selection of famous and little-known images but also to understand the working of one of the government's most original and creative pre-war initiatives.
Ground
Author: W. H. McDowell
Publisher:
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781942084129
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn artful selection of photographs commissioned by the FSA but 'killed' by Roy Stryker with some fantastic accompanying text.
The Photographs of John Vachon
Author: Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division
Publisher:
Published: 2021
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781913875138
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The approximately 172,000 film negatives and transparencies in the Library of Congress's collection from the Farm Security Administration (FSA), later the Office of War Information (OWI), provide a unique view of American life during the Great Depression and World War II. This government photography project, headed by Roy E. Stryker, employed many relatively unknown names who later became some of the twentieth-century's best-known photographers, such as Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Russell Lee, Marion Post Wolcott, Arthur Rothstein, and Carl Mydans. Initially conceived to document government loans to farmers and their subsequent resettlement in suburban communities, the project expanded to create a visual record of agricultural workers across the United States. Later, Stryker's photographers recorded both rural and urban centers as the nation prepared for World War II. Each volume in the Fields of Vision series features an introduction to the work of a single FSA photographer by a leading contemporary author or writer, and presents fifty striking images that show how the particular vision of these photographers helped shape the collective identity of America. Their evocative pictures transport the viewer to American homes, farms, and streets of the 1930s and 1940s, while offering a glimpse of a new narrative and intimate style that was later to blossom on the pages of Look and Life magazines. For many Americans of the pre-television age, the diversity and complexity of their country was defined by the lenses of these men and women. This volume focuses on the photographs of John Vachon"--
