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Picturing Poverty: Print Culture and FSA Photographs.

Posted by ethanpullman on August 27, 2008

Picturing Poverty
Picturing Poverty

 

Cara Finnegan’s Picturing Poverty discusses the relationship between “seeing and knowing”.  She demonstrates how magazines used images taken by the Farm Security Administration (FSA) between 1930 and the middle of World War II were used to frame the discussion of rural poverty in the United States.

 Book Details:
  • Hardcover: 260 pages
  • Publisher: Smithsonian (March 17, 2003)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1588341186
  • ISBN-13: 978-1588341181
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