410 photographs. These are images that have rarely been seensome twenty percent have never been published beforeimages that present a portrait of a vanished America, a visual record of everyday existence that enhances and enlarges our assumptions about the era. It presents
- Title : Long Time Coming: A Photographic Portrait of America, 1935-1943
- Author : Michael Lesy Ph.D.
- Rating : 4.76 (198 Vote)
- Publish : 2015-11-14
- Format : Hardcover
- Pages : 480 Pages
- Asin : 0393049434
- Language : English
410 photographs. These are images that have rarely been seensome twenty percent have never been published beforeimages that present a portrait of a vanished America, a visual record of everyday existence that enhances and enlarges our assumptions about the era. It presents the FSA photographs in a very different light from the bleak vision to which we are accustomed. Setting the pictures in context, Michael Lesy's iconoclastic, groundbreaking text intercuts excerpts from primary and secondary sources (some given as "assigned reading" to the project photographers) with an extended look at Roy Stryker, the FSA's controversial director. We are all familiar with the iconic images of poverty that are usually associated with the project. The agency's mission, however, went well beyond photographing dispossessed rural peopl
His books include Wisconsin Death Trip, Murder City, Angel’s World, and Long Time Coming. . Michael Lesy is one of America’s leading photographic scholars. He lives in Amherst, Massachusetts, where he teaches literary journalism at Hampshire CollegeIf a beech lives 400 years, it will drop 1.8 million nuts.On deciduous trees, leaves are solar panels. First the book needs a good editing. It's a fascinating read, a fascinating true story!. It is eminently readable and is loaded with fascinating, downright terrifying, information.. I actually like this because it helps me study the material when others have already sifted through the information.. The author is a German forester, environmentalist who obviously cares very much for his topic of choice.The book was originally published in German in 2015 as “Das geheime Leben der Baume.” The translation is beautiful prose. I returned it after looking through the book. The fact that its subject -- the United States -- continues to exist doesn't so much refute its minor chords as make them all the more relevant to the Coplandesque sweeps of optimism: elements of a portrait of what the country was, is, and -- isn't this the point of all propaganda? -- may yet be. They were surprised to learn that it was growing from a root system that was 9,550 years old.In Switzerland, construction workers uncovered stumps of trees that didn’t look very old. SuggeCopyright © 2005 The New Yorker. From The New Yorker The Farm Security Administration's ambitious program, inaugurated in 1935, to document American life in photographs produced a file of nearly a hundred and fifty thousand negatives. Here, in a collection all the more impressive for its understated presentation, Lesy examines the conception and evolution of the file under the F.S.A. administrator, Roy Stryker, and spotlights some four hundred pictures, many previously unpublished, from the program's eight-year existence. These depictions of ordinary life—social gatherings, urban streetscapes, and small-town rituals—succeed, by their range and depth, in restoring a sense of the extraordinary to an enterprise now frequently taken for granted. Hundreds have since become iconic, almost to the point of cliché: portraits of rural poverty, migrant workers,
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