Documentary portrait of Mississippi : the thirties
"Despite the disclaimer, Walker Evans and his colleagues, Dorothea Lange, Russell Lee, Arthur Rothstein, Ben Shahn, and Marion Post Wolcott, photographers for the Farm Security Administration, introduced a way of seeing and a commitment that put the word documentary into the lexicon of serious photography...These images, along with Eudora Welty's One Time, One Place, help define for us the meaning of the Depression in Mississippi. They also may help others understand an observation that Walker Evans made shortly before his death: 'I can understand why Southerners are haunted by their own landscape and in love with it'"--Introduction
Print Book, English, ©1982
University Press of Mississippi, Jackson, ©1982