Farm Security Administration

Slides:



Advertisements
Similar presentations
A Photo Essay on the Great Depression
Advertisements

"Migrant pea pickers camp in the rain. California. " Feb "Migrant pea pickers camp in the rain. California." Feb Photo by.
The Dust Bowl.
Migrant Farm Families photographs by Dorothea Lange Dorothea Lange ( ) has been called the greatest American documentary photographer. She is best.
SIGNS OF JIM CROW from the Library of Congress Collection.
The Dust Bowl in America Lesson IV: How Natural Disasters Cause Change in Community.
A History of Documentary and Photojournalistic Photography.
SIGNS OF JIM CROW. Jim Crow in Massachusetts Massachusetts outlawed slavery in 1781 but … The term "Jim Crow Law" was first used in 1841 in reference.
The Jim Crow Laws were state and local laws that established and enforced segregation. Read more: “Jim Crow Laws” were in effect from the 1880s into the.
SIGNS OF JIM CROW from the Library of Congress Collection Produced by Carole Weatherford Author, Freedom on the Menu: The Greensboro Sit-Ins Co-produced.
SIGNS OF JIM CROW from the Library of Congress Collection Produced by Carole Weatherford Author, Freedom on the Menu: The Greensboro Sit-Ins Co-produced.
JIM CROW LAWS *PowerPoint Adapted from the Library of Congress Collection What was life like for African Americans under Jim Crow laws? PowerPoint Resource.
A Picture Can Say 1,000 words… Especially During Reconstruction.
Photographs of Migrant Workers
Walker Evans By: Haley Rudolph Walker Evans By: Haley Rudolph.
EARLY 1940’S THE GREAT DEPRESSION. BLACK TUESDAY The trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange just after the crash of On Black Tuesday,
THE GREAT DEPRESSION OF THE 1930’S
CH HARDSHIP AND SUFFERING DURING THE DEPRESSION
The Great Depression Begins Chapter 14 Section 1 – The Nation’s Sick Economy Section 2 – Hardship and Suffering During the Depression Section 3 – Hoover.
An Eye on Reality. Farm Security Administration: Destitute pea pickers in California. Mother of seven children. (Circa February 1936)
Documentary Photography. 2 Document vs. Documentary A document is a record, a recording. A documentary is a recording and an explanation. A bigger picture.
THE GREAT DEPRESSION OF THE 1930’S “Brother can you spare a dime?”
Hard Times: The Great Depression
How many words is a picture worth?. Robert Capa: A Frenchwoman, with her baby fathered by a German soldier, punished by having her head shaved after the.
DOCUMENTARY and PHOTOJOURNALISM PHOTOGRAPHY Lewis Hine Dorothea Lange.
Migrant Mother Heng. Artist Biography Dorothea Nutzhorn (Lange) was born in Hoboken, New Jersey, on 26th May, At the age of seven, Dorothea contracted.
 The Great Depression  Stock Market  Stocks  Drought  The Dust Bowl  Soup Kitchens  Herbert Hoover  Franklin Roosevelt  Duke Ellington  Margaret.
“Squatters Camp” Location : CA Date : Nov, 1936 Agency : FSA Credits : Dorothea Lange (Photographer) Owner : FDRL Medium : B&W Photo FSA: Migrants: Squatters:
Photos of the Great Depression Chapter 11.
Great Depression 21H.102 October 17, Herbert Hoover ( )
Fears of My Youth The Great Depression 1)FSA (Farm Security Administration) client with mules, near Morganza, Louisiana, Lee, Russell, Photographer, 1938,
Culture Change Theories (in general) attempt to account for what is known (summarize) provide basis for explaining what is unknown are parsimonious (Occam’s.
Assignment: First, scroll through all of the following slides and create a ½ page (each) reflection on three of the following slides. One of the slides.
Just the facts… a. Describe the colors, lines, shapes, texture, and space you see in the image. b. What do you notice first in this picture? Where is your.
Roy Emerson Stryker Dorthea Lange
Images and Voices from The Dust Bowl Photographs of Migrant Workers in California by Dorothea Lange.
The Great Depression. Impact On Economy…banking and industry On Economy…banking and industry On Society….physical / material impact, psychological, emotional…families,
Chapter 16 Section 3 Life in the New Deal Era. The Dust Bowl and Migration  A mass migration to California was brought about by severe drought and winds.
Dorothea Lange May 26, 1895 – October 11, Dorothea Lange In 1902 at age seven, Lange had polio. There was no cure for it but she came out of it.
Depression Photo Analysis United States History Dr. King-Owen.
SIGNS OF JIM CROW from the Library of Congress Collection.
Post- Reconstruction Period Write down your homework: Read your BC book for 25 minutes. Check that you are on track to reach your goal.
IMAGES OF JIM CROW. The "Jim Crow" figure was a fixture of the minstrel shows that toured the South; a white man made up as a black man sang and mimicked.
Dorothea Lange and the Great Depression. Who was Dorothea Lange? Dorothea Lange (1895 – 1965) was an influential American photography and photojournalist.
“Destitute pea pickers in California. Mother of seven children.”
Long road ahead: Migrant workers walk from farm to farm looking for jobs in Southern California in 1937 With their paltry possessions stuffed in one bag,
The Great Depression: An Introduction to Of Mice and Men
Objectives: Section 3: Life in the New Deal Era
from the Library of Congress Collection
Dust Bowl and Migrant Life 1930s Great Depression
The Dust Bowl in America
Objective: To examine the causes and effects of the Dust Bowl.
JIM CROW LAWS Segregation.
Social Effects of the Depression
THE GREAT DEPRESSION OF THE 1930’S
Made By: Trinity Furtado
Media 175: Digital Photography
Southern States in the 1930’s
Images and Voices from The Dust Bowl. Images and Voices from The Dust Bowl.
What were Jim Crow laws? From the 1880s into the 1960s, most American states enforced segregation or separation of blacks and whites through "Jim Crow"
Warm Up Watch the video. How did the Great Depression contribute to America’s national identity narrative?
Focus Question: How did the Great Depression affect the lives of urban and rural Americans? HW: Use p and notes from today’s lesson to complete outline.
Distributing surplus commodities, St. Johns, Ariz. 1940
Southern States in the 1930’s
1.
The Great Depression in Arkansas
Write a paragraph on the qualities of a good friend
THE GREAT DEPRESSION OF THE 1930’S
The Great Depression Through Photographs
Presentation transcript:

Farm Security Administration Formed by government to document effects of Great Depression 1929-39 Photography division was headed by Roy Styker Styker hired group of photographers to document era Walker Evans, Dorthea Lange, Russell Lee, etc.

Dorothea Lange (1895-1965) Photographed victims of Depression for FSA in South and West Most notable image is “Migrant Mother” Stricken with polo as youth, left her with lifelong limp

Dorothea Lange Hoe Culture, near Anniston, Alabama 1936

Dorothea Lange,Plantation Overseer and His Field Hands, near Clarksdale. Mississippi, 1936

Dorothea Lange, Crossroads Store, Alabama, 1937

"Missouri family of five, seven months from the drought area "Missouri family of five, seven months from the drought area. (Vicinity of Tracy, Calif., U.S. Highway 99). / Dorothea Lange

Out-of-work people frequently traveled West, during the Great Depression, seeking a better life in places like California.  This woman (from Arkansas) had been living in this shack (near Bakersfield, California) for three years at the time Dorothea Lange took this photo, circa 1935.

Dorothea Lange Jobless on Edge of Pea Field, Imperial Valley, California 1937

Near Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California Near Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California. In grower's camp for migrant labor on the edge of the pea fields. Public health nurse interviews and advises prospective mother, aged seventeen, before arrival of first baby. Husband, aged twenty-three, is out picking. Made seventy-three cents this morning. / Lange, Dorothea, photographer.

Untitled, Dorothea Lange, 1935-42

Seemingly impassive as statues, members of a gang of migrant labors bend to a crop of lettuce in a posture they maintained all day long. / Dorothea Lange, Lettuce Cutters, Salinas Valley, California, 1935.

Dorothea Lange Migrant Mother; Nipomo, California 1936

Power farming displaces tenants. Texas panhandle, 1938 Power farming displaces tenants. Texas panhandle, 1938. Photographer: Dorothea Lange.

Power farming displaces tenants. Texas panhandle, 1938 Power farming displaces tenants. Texas panhandle, 1938. Photographer: Dorothea Lange. Toward Los Angeles, California. 1937. Photographer: Dorothea Lange.

Walker Evans (1903-1975) Known for pictures of interiors, display windows, billboards Preferred to photograph environments rather than people Left FSA for two months to live with sharecropper families in Alabama

Walker Evans, Houses and Billboards in Atlanta, Georgia, 1936

Walker Evans, Roadside Stand Near Birmingham, Alabama,1936

Tuscaloosa Wrecking Company, Alabama 1936

Walker Evans Penny Picture Display, Birmingham 1936

Walker Evans Hale County, Alabama 1936

Sharecropper’s family, Hale County, Alabama. Walker Evans, 1936.

Bud Fields in his cotton patch Bud Fields in his cotton patch. Hale County, Alabama by Walker Evans, 1935-36

Washstand in the dog run...Hale County, Alabama. 1935 or 1936.

Floyd and Lucille Burroughs, Hale County, Alabama, 1936

Frank Tengle, Bud Fields, and Floyd Burroughs, cotton sharecroppers, Hale County, Alabama by Walker Evans, 1936

Misc. photographers FSA created 77,000 black-and-white documentary photographs The project emphasized rural life and the negative impact of the Great Depression, farm mechanization, and the Dust Bowl (and race)

Man at the bar on Saturday night. Craigville, Minnesota. Russell Lee, photographer.

February 1939. Hidalgo County, Texas February 1939. Hidalgo County, Texas. "Kitchen of Farm Security Administration tenant purchase client.” Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration.

Dust clouds over the Texas Panhandle, photograph by Farm Security Administration photographer Arthur Rothstein, March 1936.

The bleached skull of a steer on the dry sun-baked earth of the South Dakota Badlands. Arthur Rothstein, photographer.

Farmer and sons walking in the face of a dust storm Farmer and sons walking in the face of a dust storm. Cimarron County, Oklahoma. Arthur Rothstein, photographer.

Belzoni, Mississippi, in the delta area. October 1939 Belzoni, Mississippi, in the delta area. October 1939. Marion Post Wolcott, photographer. "Negro man entering movie theater by "Colored" entrance."

Lancaster, Ohio. August 1938. Ben Shahn, photographer. "Sign on a restaurant." [Sign: "We Cater to White Trade only."]

Farm Security Administration took this photo of real life maids in Port Gibson, Mississippi. Credit: Marion Post Wolcott, U.S. Farm Security Administration

Memphis, Tennessee. September 1943. Esther Bubley, photographer. "People waiting for a bus at the Greyhound bus terminal."

On the way from Louisville, Kentucky to Nashville, Tennessee On the way from Louisville, Kentucky to Nashville, Tennessee. September 1943. Esther Bubley, photographer. "A rest stop for Greyhound bus passengers on the way from Louisville, Kentucky to Nashville, Tennessee, with separate accommodations for colored passengers." [Sign: "Colored Dining Room in Rear."]

American Gothic, Gordon Parks