The Resource Ground : a reprise of photographs from the Farm Security Administration, Bill McDowell
Ground : a reprise of photographs from the Farm Security Administration, Bill McDowell
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The item Ground : a reprise of photographs from the Farm Security Administration, Bill McDowell represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Manchester City Library.This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
Resource Information
The item Ground : a reprise of photographs from the Farm Security Administration, Bill McDowell represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Manchester City Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- The photographs in 'Ground' are taken from an archive of 145,000 images from 1935-1943 for the Farm Security Administration (FSA), a New Deal agency ... within the Department of Agriculture ... The FSA photography division was run ... by Roy Stryker, who ... routinely damaged FSA negatives with a hole punch to prevent them from being printed. Some of the negatives he punched (referred to by the FSA as 'killed') were poor exposures or had been ruined already by faulty development ... while others had no technical flaws ... It is likely that Roy Stryker's ... only goal was to destroy undesirable negatives. But in his act of censorship Stryker wrested the photograph from its maker and unwittingly created a new picture ... Each photograph in 'Ground' is the result of 3 separate acts of picture-making : the original photographer's deliberate compositional and contextual decisions, Stryker's hole punch, and my re-contextualization ... By narrowing the scope of photographs to that of land and agriculture I've tried to construction an elemental relationship with the 1930s through our common reliance on the soil ... The photographers whose work is represented in this book are Paul Carter, Walker Evans, Theodor Jung, Russell Lee, Carl Mydans, Arthur Rothstein, Ben Shahn, John Vachon, and Marion Paul Wolcott
- Language
- eng
- Label
- Ground : a reprise of photographs from the Farm Security Administration
- Title
- Ground
- Title remainder
- a reprise of photographs from the Farm Security Administration
- Statement of responsibility
- Bill McDowell
- Subject
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- Photography, Agricultural -- United States -- 20th century
- Photography, Artistic
- United States, Farm Security Administration
- Agriculture -- United States -- Pictorial works -- 20th century
- Depressions -- 1929 -- United States -- Pictorial works
- Documentary photography
- Documentary photography -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- McDowell, Bill, 1956-
- Photobooks
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- The photographs in 'Ground' are taken from an archive of 145,000 images from 1935-1943 for the Farm Security Administration (FSA), a New Deal agency ... within the Department of Agriculture ... The FSA photography division was run ... by Roy Stryker, who ... routinely damaged FSA negatives with a hole punch to prevent them from being printed. Some of the negatives he punched (referred to by the FSA as 'killed') were poor exposures or had been ruined already by faulty development ... while others had no technical flaws ... It is likely that Roy Stryker's ... only goal was to destroy undesirable negatives. But in his act of censorship Stryker wrested the photograph from its maker and unwittingly created a new picture ... Each photograph in 'Ground' is the result of 3 separate acts of picture-making : the original photographer's deliberate compositional and contextual decisions, Stryker's hole punch, and my re-contextualization ... By narrowing the scope of photographs to that of land and agriculture I've tried to construction an elemental relationship with the 1930s through our common reliance on the soil ... The photographers whose work is represented in this book are Paul Carter, Walker Evans, Theodor Jung, Russell Lee, Carl Mydans, Arthur Rothstein, Ben Shahn, John Vachon, and Marion Paul Wolcott
- Cataloging source
- BEA
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1956-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- McDowell, Bill
- Dewey number
- 704.9/43
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
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- TR642
- TR820.5
- LC item number
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- .M336 2016
- .M336 2016
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
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- 1903-1938
- 1903-1975
- 1906-1996
- 1903-1986
- 1915-1985
- 1898-1969
- 1914-1975
- 1910-1990
- 1893-1975
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
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- Carter, Paul
- Evans, Walker
- Jung, Theodor
- Lee, Russell
- Mydans, Carl
- Rothstein, Arthur
- Shahn, Ben
- Vachon, John
- Wolcott, Marion Post
- Stryker, Roy Emerson
- Daylight Community Arts Foundation
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- McDowell, Bill
- United States
- Photography, Agricultural
- Agriculture
- Photography, Artistic
- Depressions
- Documentary photography
- Label
- Ground : a reprise of photographs from the Farm Security Administration, Bill McDowell
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
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- text
- still image
- Content type code
-
- txt
- sti
- Content type MARC source
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- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 30 cm
- Extent
- 186 pages
- Isbn
- 9781942084129
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- chiefly illustrated
- System control number
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- (OCoLC)949907552
- (OCoLC)ocn949907552
- Label
- Ground : a reprise of photographs from the Farm Security Administration, Bill McDowell
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
-
- text
- still image
- Content type code
-
- txt
- sti
- Content type MARC source
-
- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 30 cm
- Extent
- 186 pages
- Isbn
- 9781942084129
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- chiefly illustrated
- System control number
-
- (OCoLC)949907552
- (OCoLC)ocn949907552
Subject
- Photography, Agricultural -- United States -- 20th century
- Photography, Artistic
- United States, Farm Security Administration
- Agriculture -- United States -- Pictorial works -- 20th century
- Depressions -- 1929 -- United States -- Pictorial works
- Documentary photography
- Documentary photography -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- McDowell, Bill, 1956-
- Photobooks
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