Images of Depression-Era Louisiana: The FSA Photographs of Ben Shahn, Russell Lee, and Marion Post Wolcott
Images of Depression-Era Louisiana: The FSA Photographs of Ben Shahn, Russell Lee, and Marion Post Wolcott
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Bryan Giemza is director of the Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina Libraries. She is the author of Becoming Cajun, Becoming American: The Acadian in American Literature from Longfellow to James Lee Burke.. He is the author of Irish Catholic Writers and the Invention of the American South.Originally from Thibodaux, Louisiana, Maria Hebert-Leiter teaches at Lycoming College in Williamsport, PA
About the AuthorBryan Giemza is director of the Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina Libraries. She is the author of Becoming Cajun, Becoming American: The Acadian in American Literature from Longfellow to James Lee Burke.. He is the author of Irish Catholic Writers and the Invention of the American South.Originally from Thibodaux, Louisiana, Maria Hebert-Leiter teaches at Lycoming College in Williamsport, PA
In Images of Depression-Era Louisiana, Bryan Giemza and Maria Hebert-Leiter curate more than 150 of those photographs, offering a riveting collection that captures this pivotal time in Louisiana’s history.The book’s stunning photo gallery, with original captions, provides a moving, visual tour of Louisiana during a period of economic struggle and transition. Ben Shahn, Russell Lee, and Marion Post Wolcott contributed some of those other images, many equally compelling. government famously sent photographers across the country to document on film the need for federal assistance in rural areas. Letters and other archival documents further illuminate the three artists’ impressions of Louisiana, its people, and its traditions.. Organized by photographer, parish, and date, the revealing im