Out of the forties
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Out of the forties

1983
149 pages
Description and travelNineteen fortiesPictorial worksRanch lifeSocial life and customsUnited StatesUnited states, social life and customsUnited states, pictorial worksTexas, social life and customsDocumentary photographyTwentieth century

The author retraces the lives of the people shown in the early 1940's photographic project commissioned by the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, under the direction of Roy Stryker. Many of the photographers of this survey worked with Stryker when he was the director of the FSA. They include: Russell Lee, John Vachon, Sol Libsohn, Esther Bubley, Todd Webb [and others].

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