The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 99, July 1995 - April, 1996 Page: 25
626 p. : ill. (some col.), maps, ports. ; 23 cm.View a full description of this periodical.
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PICTURING TEXAS
THE FSA-OWI PHOTOGRAPHERS IN TEXAS, 1935-1943
By Robert L. Reid
This important, lavishly illustrated book focuses
on some of the most famous photographs ever
taken: the Farm Security Administration's
images of Dust Bowl Texans. But there is much
more to the FSA photographs than is common-
ly believed. From 1935 to 1943-the critical
years of the Great Depression and World War
II-the photographers in the federal govern-
ment's Farm
Security
Administration t !II I ! I 1
(and later the
Office of War
Information)
documented /
America, espe- ' :
cially Texas, in
all its vast com-
plexity. Some of the most famous names in doc-
umentary photography, including Dorothea
Lange, Russell Lee, and Arthur Rothstein, took
more than five thousand photographs in Texas,
more than in any other state.
ISBN o-87611-z40-1. 9 x 12 in., 224 pp., 200
duotone photographs, index. Cloth, $49.95
Member's price, $42.46
2.306 Sid Richardson Hall * University Station * Austin, Texas 78712
512/471-1525 * FAX: 512/471-1551
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