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Photographic Memories: The Autobiography of Jack Delano

Door Jack Delano

Categorie
Fotografie (Kunst)
Boeknummer
#368762-ZB24
Titel
Photographic Memories: The Autobiography of Jack Delano
Auteur
Delano, Jack
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
Washington/London : Smithsonian Institution Press
Jaar van uitgave
1997
ISBN10
1560987413
ISBN13
9781560987413
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original half cloth, silver lettered spine, illustrations (including photographs) in b/w, small 4to.
Samenvatting
In 1940, as a young photographer working for Roy Stryker's Historical Section of the Farm Security Administration (FSA), Jack Delano traveled the length of the eastern seaboard recording the struggles of migrant workers still living in the shadow of the Depression. Late the following year, with the nation on the verge of war, Stryker sent him on a three-month assignment in Puerto Rico where the people he met radiated humor and generosity despite poverty worse than any he had seen in the continental United States. Back on the mainland, Delano traveled across the country photographing the homefront contributions of ethnic and minority groups and spent a month documenting the mobilized railroad system on freight trains between Chicago and California. After serving three years in the army, Del... (Lees verder)ano settled in Puerto Rico, where for the last fifty years he has been a constant participant - as a photographer, filmmaker, television station director, book illustrator, cartoonist, and composer - in the island's cultural life.
Pagina's
221
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 20,00

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