Overview

Working for the government's Farm Security Administration in the 1930s, photographers set out across the country to capture the human face of the Depression. Walker Evans' portraits of sharecroppers and Dorothea Lange's images of migrant families today stand as the most popular images from the FSA's project. Yet, in their own time, the pictures functioned as urgent, powerful reminders that one-third of the nation was in a real crisis. Focusing on these and other well-known FSA photographs, this work examines how popular magazines constructed complex and often contradictory messages about poverty. It also explores a moment in American history when visual images took center stage as the nation struggled with economic, political, and social strife. By striving to understand the original context of the photographs, this work shines new light on the meanings of poverty, the Depression, and the various roles of the media. At once an analysis of FSA images and a balanced commentary on how the media presented pictures to the public, this work is above all a look into the difficult issue of how the mass media presents social issues to Americans.

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Author:   Cara A. Finnegan
Publisher:   Smithsonian Books
Imprint:   Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.510kg
ISBN:  

9781588341181

ISBN 10:   1588341186
Pages:   260
Publication Date:   17 March 2003
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Spanish Italy/Italian Spain - Kelley Helmstutler Di Dio and Tommaso Mozzati; Domenico Fancelli and the tomb of the Catholic Kings: Carrara, Italian Wars and the Spanish Renaissance - Michela Zurla; The Tomb of Bishop Alonso de Madrigal ( El Tostado ) in the Cathedral of Avila - The Monumentalization of the Autorbild - Johannes Roell; Architecture for the retablo between Spain and Italy: on the work of Jacopo L'Indaco, Alonso Berruguete and Diego de Siloe (1520-1530) - Carlos Plaza; An Italian Fountain for the Emperor: The Fuente del Aguila (1539) - Maria Jose Redondo Cantera; Michelangelo Re-read: A Note on the Reception of his Pictorial Language in the Spanish Sculpture of the Second Half of the Sixteenth Century - Manuel Arias Martinez; Circulation of Sculpture Across the Spanish Empire: The Case of Martino Regio's Genoese Workshop and the Multiple Variations of His Name - Fernando Loffredo; Ribera's Northern Italian Nexus - Lisandra Estevez; Courtiers, Compasses, Fables and Dictionaries: Italian Books in the Collections of Velazquez, Carducho and Guerra Coronel - Marta Cacho Casal; Guido Reni's Influence in Seville through Originals, Copies, and Prints - Rafael Japon; Some Spanish Paintings in Florentine Collections: The Legacy of the Iberian Journey of Cosimo III de' Medici - Miguel Tain

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Cara A. Finnegan is assistant professor of speech communication at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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