FSA Documentary
FSAドキュメンタリー / 1935–1944 / Style / Photography Movements
The documentary program of Depression-era America's Farm Security Administration. Lange's Migrant Mother and 270,000 archived negatives defined the public role of documentary.
Portraits preserving dignity / Living conditions described / The archive as state project / Field information in captions
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Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
- Type
- Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
- Composition
- Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
- Material
- Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
- Caution
- Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of era, region, technology and makers.
- Further study
- Roy Stryker's shooting scripts / Walker Evans / Yale's Photogrammar