Selected Bibliography

Agee, James and Walker Evans. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1941. Curtis, James. MindÕs Eye, MindÕs Truth: FSA Photography Reconsidered. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1989. Fisher, Andrea. Let Us Now Praise Famous Women: Women Photographers for the U.S. Government 1935 to 1944. London and New York: Pandora, 1987. Fleischhauer, Carl and Beverly W. Brannan, eds.Documenting America, 1935Ð1943. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988. Hurley, F. Jack. Portrait of a Decade: Roy Stryker and the Development of Documentary Photography in the Thirties. Baton Rouge, La.: Louisiana State University Press, 1972. Lange, Dorothea and Paul Schuster Taylor. An American Exodus: A Record of Human Erosion in the Thirties. 1939. Reprint, New Haven, Conn. and London: Yale University Press, 1969. Natanson, Nicholas. The Black Image in the New Deal: The Politics of FSA Photography. Knoxville, Tenn.: The University of Tennessee Press, 1992. OÕNeal, Hank. A Vision Shared: A Classic Portrait of America and Its People, 1935Ð1943. New York: St. MartinÕs Press, 1976. Peeler, David P. Hope Among Us Yet: Social Criticism and Social Solace in Depression America. Athens, Ga. and London: The University of Georgia Press, 1987. Pells, Richard H. Radical Visions and American Dreams: Culture and Social Thought in the Depression Years. New York: Harper and Row, 1973. Rabinowitz, Paula. They Must Be Represented: The Politics of Documentary. London and New York: Verso, 1994. Sontag, Susan. On Photography . New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1977. Stange, Maren. Symbols of Ideal Life: Social Documentary Photography in America 1890Ð1950. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1989. _____. ÒÔThe Record ItselfÕ: Farm Security Administration Photography and the Transformation of Rural Life.Ó In Official Images: New Deal Photography. Washington D.C. and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1987. Steiner, Michael C. ÒRegionalism in the Great Depression.Ó Geographical Review 73, no. 4 (October 1983): 430Ð46. Stott, William. Documentary Expression and Thirties America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1973. Stryker, Roy Emerson and Nancy Wood. In This Proud Land: America 1935Ð1943 As Seen in the FSA Photographs. Greenwich, Conn.: New York Graphic Society Ltd., 1973. Sussman, Warren I. ÒThe Thirties.Ó In The Development of An American Culture. Edited by Stanley Coben and Lorman Ratner. New York: St. MartinÕs Press, 1983. Trachtenberg, Alan. Reading American Photographs: Images as History, Mathew Brady to Walker Evans. New York: Hill and Wang, 1989. Watkins, T. H. The Great Depression: America in the 1930s. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1993. Complied by Mary Kalish-Johnson Curatorial Assistant Weisman Art Museum

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