A Vision Shared: A Portrait of America 1935–1943
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| Rating | : | 4.50 (895 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 3958291813 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 384 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-08-29 |
| Language | : | English |
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Elegant in its simplicity, A Vision Shared is a reminder of the power of photographic storytelling, as readers are pulled into the lives of ordinary Americans and the places where they lived.. “By any measure this is a remarkable book,” wrote Alden Whitman in The New York Times, “one of the few beneficent fruits of the Depression and one of the few collections of photographs to limn both the starkness of American life in those years and the indomitable strength of those who endured them.”For the project, 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 photographer Hank O’Neal to choose the best of their own work and provide commentary, resulting in an oversized hardcover full of large, black-and-white images of America during the Great Depression.For the 40th-anniversary edition of this remarkable volume, all of the photographs, texts and historical materials that comprised 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. Celebrating the 40th anniversary of this classic, the indelible work of the now-iconic Farm Security Administration photographersFeaturing the work of the 11 photographers who worked for the Farm Security Administration--perhaps
In 1970, O'’Neal took his first serious photographs and two years later met Berenice Abbott, with whom he worked closely for the next nineteen years. O'’Neal is co-editor of Berenice Abbott (2008) and the five-volume The Unknown Abbott (2013), and has published more than a dozen other books on various subjects, mostly related to photography, music or both.. Hank O'’Neal was born in 1940 and, in addition to being a phot
About the same time he met Walker Evans and all the other living Farm Security Administration photographers. O'’Neal is co-editor of Berenice Abbott (2008) and the five-volume The Unknown Abbott (2013), and has published more than a dozen other books on various subjects, mostly related to photography, music or both.. In 1970, O'’Neal took his first serious photographs and two years later met Berenice Abbott, with whom he worked closely for the next nineteen years. About the AuthorHank O'’Neal was born in 1940 and, in addition to being a photographer, his career has included stints in the worlds of government, education, and record and concert production