How Did Photography Impact Effect How Society Viewed The Great Depression Era?
Section 1 – Identification and Evaluation of Sources
This investigation will answer the question, “How did photography and images of the Great Depression impact effect how society viewed the Depression era?” This investigation is important because it provided insight into how American society was shaped by the art of photography during the era. The Great Depression was an intense time period, and understanding the effect to which photography changed the civic view can help further understanding about the greater question of how art affects perception of history. The scope of this investigation is the photographs released to the public by the FSA from 1935 to 1945.
This investigation will contain an examination of The Book of Photography, …show more content…
This included setting up migrant camps, relief projects, and New Deal federal programs. In 1937, the FSA hired photographer Roy Stryker to begin a project that would change the public perception of the FSA. Stryker They needed the public to agree with and support their programs. In order to accomplish this, Stryker hired 20 photographers, including Walker Evans, Dorthea Lange, Esther Bubley, Russell Lee, Carl Mydans, Gordon Parks, Marion Post Wolcott, Arthur Rothstein, Ben Shahn and ten others. These artists travelled the country photographing the victims that the FSA sought to help. The photographers were previously recognized, but through their work for the FSA, they became iconic and synonymous with the Great Depression era. While they aimed to assist with relief funding and programs, the photographers used their photos to change and shape how the rest of the country, and even world, saw the Great Depression. Over the course of 8 years, spanning from 1935 to 1943, the project’s photographers collected 164,000 black and white negatives, 77,000 of which were printed, and 1600 color image negatives, 644 of which were printed. These photographs were freely published in magazines, newspapers, books, films, and exhibits. The goal of this project was to educate urban America about the disaster and poverty of the rest of the country, in order to justify and promote the FSA
This investigation will answer the question, “How did photography and images of the Great Depression impact effect how society viewed the Depression era?” This investigation is important because it provided insight into how American society was shaped by the art of photography during the era. The Great Depression was an intense time period, and understanding the effect to which photography changed the civic view can help further understanding about the greater question of how art affects perception of history. The scope of this investigation is the photographs released to the public by the FSA from 1935 to 1945.
This investigation will contain an examination of The Book of Photography, …show more content…
This included setting up migrant camps, relief projects, and New Deal federal programs. In 1937, the FSA hired photographer Roy Stryker to begin a project that would change the public perception of the FSA. Stryker They needed the public to agree with and support their programs. In order to accomplish this, Stryker hired 20 photographers, including Walker Evans, Dorthea Lange, Esther Bubley, Russell Lee, Carl Mydans, Gordon Parks, Marion Post Wolcott, Arthur Rothstein, Ben Shahn and ten others. These artists travelled the country photographing the victims that the FSA sought to help. The photographers were previously recognized, but through their work for the FSA, they became iconic and synonymous with the Great Depression era. While they aimed to assist with relief funding and programs, the photographers used their photos to change and shape how the rest of the country, and even world, saw the Great Depression. Over the course of 8 years, spanning from 1935 to 1943, the project’s photographers collected 164,000 black and white negatives, 77,000 of which were printed, and 1600 color image negatives, 644 of which were printed. These photographs were freely published in magazines, newspapers, books, films, and exhibits. The goal of this project was to educate urban America about the disaster and poverty of the rest of the country, in order to justify and promote the FSA