Small town America : the Missouri photo workshops, 1949-1991
"Just as the Farm Security Administration's photographers captured the essence of rural life during the Depression, this collection of documentary photographs chronicles the very heart and soul of our nation - small town life."--BOOK JACKET. "When Cliff Edom (1907-1991) began his experiment in photographic education in 1949, his purpose was to provide access to the community life of a small town for photographers so that they could hone and develop photojournalistic skills - so they could capture truth on film. Forty-three years later, the University of Missouri's Photography Workshop is one of the most renowned photography programs in the country. It has produced a generation of top photojournalists and, in the process, Edom's experiment has created a visual historical record of small town America."--BOOK JACKET. ""If the first social unit was the family, the second was the small town," says Frank Conroy, director of the Iowa Writer's Workshop, in his introductory essay "Small Town America." These photographs, the best pictures selected from the Missouri Workshop's 43 years, are truly an historical record of the heartbeat of America - of family, of tradition and of change. Central to Edom's philosophy was that photography illuminate as well as record; this principle is evident in these scenes of small town America that simultaneously convey both uniqueness and universality. This book captures the richness of everyday American life in the second half of this century and will delight anyone who's ever lived in a small town - or wished that they had."--BOOK JACKET
Print Book, English, ©1993
Fulcrum Pub., Golden, Colo., USA, ©1993