Picturing Faith - Photography and the Great Depression

Describes how a group of photographers--including Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, and Gordon Parks--were commissioned to capture in photographs the economic struggle and social dislocation of the Depression but who also captured a nation rich with a religious faith that crossed many religious barriers.

Product details

• Authors: Colleen Mcdannell, McDannell Colleen
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2011
• EAN: 9780300184464
• ISBN: 978-0-300-18446-4
• No. of pages: 336
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; RELIGION / General, PHOTOGRAPHY / History, Photojournalism, Religion & beliefs, History of Religion, History of Art, Photography and photographs