Picturing Faith Photography and the Great Depression

Name: Picturing Faith Photography and the Great Depression
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ISBN: 9780300104301

ISBN-10: 0300104308

ISBN-13: 9780300104301

Edition: 2004

Authors: Colleen McDannell

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In the midst of the Great Depression, the American government initiated one of the most ambitious national photographic projects ever undertaken. Such photographers as Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, and Gordon Parks—all then virtually unknown—were commissioned to chronicle in pictures the economic struggle and social dislocation of the Depression era. They explored every facet of rural life in an effort to document the troubles, as well as the spirit, of the nation. Fanning out across the country, these photographers captured a nation alive with religious faith—from Dust Bowl migrants singing hymns to orthodox Jews praying in rural Connecticut. In Picturing Faith, the preeminent historian…

Book details

List price: $75.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 11/10/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Size: 7.00" wide x 10.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 2.244
Language: English

Colleen McDannell is Sterling McMurrin Chair of Religious Studies and associate professor of history at the University of Utah.




Introducing Americans to America



Enduring Faith



Churches Without People



Another South



Christian Charity



New Mexico's Patriots



Farming Jews



The Negro Church



City Congregations



Project's End


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index