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Same People, Same Time, Same Place: Contrasting Images of Destitute Ozark Mountaineers during the Great Depression.

An essay is presented on photographs of farmers in the Arkansas Ozarks taken in 1935. It discusses photographs taken by Arthur Rothstein and Ben Shahn, photographers hired by the U.S. Resettlement Administration (RA), later the Farm Security Administration (FSA), to record rural poverty, and those t...

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Publicado en:Arkansas Historical Quarterly Vol. 70; no. 3; pp. 288 - 316
Autor principal: Watkins, Patsy G.
Formato: Essay
Publicado: Arkansas Historical Association Autumn2011
Materias:
Rural poor
Arkansas state history
Documentary photography
Shahn, Ben, 1898-1969
Rothstein, Arthur
Twentieth century
Arkansas
United States
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Sumario:An essay is presented on photographs of farmers in the Arkansas Ozarks taken in 1935. It discusses photographs taken by Arthur Rothstein and Ben Shahn, photographers hired by the U.S. Resettlement Administration (RA), later the Farm Security Administration (FSA), to record rural poverty, and those taken by a photographer identified as probably being Boone County, Arkansas rehabilitation caseworker Ernest Nicholson. Other topics include photo captions and photographic equipment.