Trauma And Documentary Photography Of The Fsa

Proposes that we reconsider the work of the Farm Security Administration and its most beloved photographers in light of various forms of trauma in the 1930s. This title offers ways to understand this body of work by exploring a more variable idea of documentary photography than what the New Dealers proposed.

“Well conceived and boldly realized, these essays provide sophisticated, daring interpretive inquiries into a pivotal moment in the history of photography.”—Blake Stimson, author of The Pivot of the World: Photography and its Nation



“With these innovative essays, Blair and Rosenberg challenge our understanding of both the documentary impulse and the time when it was defined and canonized.”—Deborah Martin Kao, Richard L. Menschel Curator of Photography, Harvard University Art Museums