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Open your eyes, there's art around
Globe and Mail, Canada - May 3, 2008
Contact, the month-long, city-wide event that is now the largest photography festival in the world, makes contact with the public this year through a series ...
Bruce Mozert?s Underwater World
Senior Times, FL - May 2, 2008
Author and documentary photographer Gary Monroe has written a book entitled ?Silver Springs: The Underwater World of Bruce Mozert? to be released on April ...

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CONTACT Photography Festival - 2008 Preview
blogTO, Canada - May 1, 2008
The world renown Magnum Photos agency will be projecting short documentary style films in the front windows of the hotel until the end of May. ...

Pasadena Weekly
crossing the line
Pasadena Weekly, CA - May 1, 2008
By Carl Kozlowski 05/01/2008 If a picture is worth a thousand words, then whole volumes of disgust and dismay were generated by the horrifying photos that ...

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Rediscovered after 50 years, Magnum photos go on show in Vienna
AFP - Apr 17, 2008
"Today, this would be impossible, because we're entering a period of great dearth in terms of documentary work, for which digital is to blame," he said. ...
Canadian version of classic jazz photo to be shot
Toronto Star,  Canada - May 3, 2008
Because of those who stayed, though, A Great Day in Harlem has had such resonance over the years that, in 1994, it became the subject of a documentary ...
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Houston Chronicle, United States - Apr 15, 2008
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Up & Coming: Exhibits, Music, Onstage, Potpourri
Nashua Telegraph, NH - May 3, 2008
CONCORD ? The New Hampshire Nurses' Association will host a showing of the Emmy award-winning documentary "Vietnam Nurses with Dana Delany" on Monday, ...
Photos capture era of French fashion dominance
San Francisco Chronicle,  USA - Apr 25, 2008
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The Associated Press - May 1, 2008
... _ Photography Gourmet _ Photojournalism National Geographic, for series of photos depicting malaria around the world _ Photo portfolio Vanity Fair, ...
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Empowerment through Photo Novella: Portraits of Participation -
C Wang, MA Burris - Health Education & Behavior, 1994 - heb.sagepub.com
... education, feminist theory, and documentary photography. It draws on our experience ...
empowerment, feminism, and documentary photography, each of which makes ...

Visual sociology, documentary photography, and photojournalism: It?s (almost) all a matter of …
HS Becker - Image-based research: A sourcebook for qualitative …, 1998 - books.google.com
... probably say to the photographer who brought such pictures in,'These don ... Visual
Sociology, Documentary Photography, and Photojournalism For sociologists ...

[BOOK] Documentary Expression and Thirties America
W Stott - 1986 - books.google.com
... private self.4 umentary photographer Arthur Rothstein ... today is 'documentary.' " Then,
without saying he ... the Farm Security Administration's Photography Unit run ...

An argument for visual sociology
D Harper - Image-based research: A sourcebook for qualitative …, 1998 - books.google.com
... images, particularly by the photographer Chris Richardson ... emerge in the typical photo-
journalist's role. Recent documentary projects, including Olive Pierce's ...

[BOOK] Image-Based Research: A Sourcebook for Qualitative Researchers -
J Prosser - 1998 - books.google.com
... also Claudia Valsky for taking pictures of pupils ... claimed to be evidence of the external
world. ... is attached, such as' documentary photography'or'photojournalism ...

[BOOK] Documentary: A History of the Non-Fiction Film -
E Barnouw - 1993 - books.google.com
... Muybridge, already a celebrated photographer, undertook to ... and major prophet of
documentary film, was ... who had turned to portrait photography, photographing well ...

Chinese village women as visual anthropologists: A participatory approach to reaching policymakers -
C Wang, MA Burris, XY Ping - Social Science & Medicine, 1996 - Elsevier
... The image, and the photographer's own words, served to define ... SUMMARY The photo novella
project is an ... education, feminist theory and documentary pho- tography ...

Demonic curiosity and the aesthetics of documentary photography -
J Friday - The British Journal of Aesthetics, 2000 - Br Soc Aesthetics
... portrait is the most familiar genre of documentary art, a ... photographer intentionally
creates the conditions for a causally governed photo- chemical process ...

[BOOK] The Handbook of Visual Analysis -
T Van Leeuwen, C Jewitt - 2001 - books.google.com
... of Robert Mapplethorpe Magnum Photos Ltd ... quote, mistrust the'evidence'ofphotojournalism
and documentary photography: '... ... through the texts and pictures on toy ...

Talking about pictures: a case for photo elicitation -
D Harper - Visual Studies, 2002 - informaworld.com
... in a paper published by the photographer and researcher ... ranging from fine-arts quality
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Analysis of documentary photos revises history

 

By analyzing some lesser known photographs, taken by world famous documentary photographers, art historian Cecelia Strandroth relates a new history of the Depression Era in the United States. She will publicly defend her dissertation at Uppsala University on December 14.

Can documentary photographs be regarded as credible depictions of events in the world or are they rather staged representations of a special perspective? Do documentary photos take part in the struggle against injustice or are they in fact instruments of those in power? These questions have been discussed intensively over the last few years and a particularly relevant in terms of the photographs that Cecilia Strandroth studies in her dissertation, taken during the 1930s by photographers employed by the Farm Security Administration, U.S. government authority. The photographs are classics of the documentary genre. Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange’s images of the suffering of destitute farmers in the American South have become part of the American national heritage. Today they are symbols of the Great Depression of the 1930s and are said to show the resilience of the American people. The country survived the Depression and went on to win World War II.

Cecilia Strandroth’s dissertation brings to light another history of the FSA. By examining seldom studied photographs, she reveals a history of politics, marketing, and propaganda. The photographers were employed to advertise the policies the Franklin D. Roosevelt pursued as president, the famous package of measures known as the New Deal.

“Rather than representing an idealistic depiction of the living conditions of the country’s poorest people, the FSA photographers were part of an effective marketing apparatus,” she says.

The negative charge of the word ‘propaganda’ and the persuasive function of marketing does not square well with the demands of the documentary genre regarding objectivity and authenticity. The dissertation shows that the political function of the FSA was written out of history in order for the project to be able to serve as a symbol and a national legacy. This was done by suppressing the images that make the marketing of the administration’s policies apparent.

“This is most clearly the case when it comes to the best-known FSA photographer, Walker Evans, who is seen today as one of the greatest American artists of the 20th century. Despite this status, much of his production for FSA has not received much notice,” says Cecilia Strandroth.

Her dissertation presents and discusses a large number of these photographs, many of which were never previously ascribed to Walker Evans.

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The dissertation is being distributed by Fronton publishers, www.frontonforlag.se, e-mail: info@frontonforlag.se

 
 
 
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