Beginning in 1935, a group of New Deal-sponsored photographers roamed the American landscape, capturing the human face of the Great Depression. This film tells the story of the mammoth project, supervised by Roy Stryker of the Farm Security Administration and later made part of the Office of War Information. Viewers will encounter the poignant, iconic images and personal challenges of photographers Gordon Parks, Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, Marion Post Wolcott, and other visionaries. Interviews with Parks, Louise Rosskam, and Bernarda Shahn - wife of painter and photographer Ben Shahn - shed light on a period in which artistic innovation formed a response to social and economic despair.

Films Media Group

Stryker, Roy Emerson, 1893-1975, United States. Farm Security Administration, United States. Resettlement Administration, United States. Office of War Information, Documentary photography--United States--History--20th century, Depressions--1929--United States, United States--History--1933-1945, United States--Rural conditions, United States--Social life and customs--1918-1945, World history, Art, Photography, Architecture

Butler, Jeanine Isabel (Producer), Reilly, Alastair (Producer), Butler, Catherine Lynn (Producer), Bond, Julian (Narrator), Butler, Jeanine Isabel (Director), Butler, Jeanine Isabel (Author of screenplay, etc.), Butlerfilms (Firm) (Producer), South Carolina Educational Television Network (Producer), Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)

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English

Higher education

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