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Title: Children of the Depression by Kathleen Thompson, Hilary Mac Austin, Hilary Austin ISBN: 0-253-34031-4 Publisher: Indiana University Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: Growing up in hard times
Comment: There always seems a new way of looking at the Farm Security Administration photos of the Depression. I've already got 'Plain Pictures of Plain Doctoring: Vernacular Expression in New Deal Medicine and Photography' (MIT 1985) and 'An American Journey: Images of Railroading During the Depression' (Hot Box Press 2000) and this excellent book is the first to show dozens of great photos of children (and teenagers).
The author's explain in the intro that at the nadir of the Depression about a quarter of the workforce were unemployed and because no child labor laws had been passed this huge number included some children, especially in agriculture. Most of the photos in this book show children in a rural setting, where it was expected that they would help their parents increase the family income.
Sixteen of the FSA photographers work is included and the author's have searched for photos that are seldom or have never been published before and this is one reason I liked the book, another is the large format landscape size. All the images have a short caption, date, photographer's name and Library of Congress negative file number. There are a couple of slightly annoying production points: the lack of page numbers, even though there is a contents page with a page number for each of the seven chapters and the ten pages of introduction are numbered but with roman numerals.
Fortunately not all the photos show hard times and despair, one chapter, called Playing, shows kids having fun, another, Living, has a 1940 Marion Post Wolcott shot of five laughing teenagers folding newspapers on a front lawn in Natchitoches, Louisiana. As you would expect though most of the rest of these sensitively taken photos do show children just having to make do in those extraordinary years.
If you collect books of FSA output or just want to see some great descriptive photos of the past 'Children of the Depression' is well worth getting.
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Title: John Vachon's America: Photographs and Letters from the Depression to World War II by John Vachon, Miles Orvell ISBN: 0520223780 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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Title: The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague In History by John M. Barry ISBN: 0670894737 Publisher: Viking Books Pub. Date: 05 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: The Fortress of Solitude : A Novel by JONATHAN LETHEM ISBN: 0385500696 Publisher: Doubleday Pub. Date: 16 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title:Bowling for Columbine ASIN: B00008DDVV Publisher: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pub. Date: 19 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $14.99 |
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Title: The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant ISBN: 1400060737 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 17 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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