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Selected Bibliography and Related Resources
FSA-OWI photographs have been published in hundreds of books and articles. Photographers of the Farm Security Administration: An Annotated Bibliography, 1930-1980, by Penelope Dixon (Garland Publishing, Inc., 1983) [LC call number Z7136.D63D59 1983], provides an extensive list of books and articles about the FSA photographers or featuring FSA photographs. Documenting America, edited by Carl Fleischhauer and Beverly Brannan (University of California Press, 1988) [LC call number E8O6.D616 1988], provides a thorough overview of the collection and its organization and includes an extensive bibliography.
This online bibliography lists books, articles, and other resources about the FSA-OWI photography project as well as the resulting photographs. Visit your local library to find out more about these and other books about the FSA-OWI project.
Publications
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Publications
General
Amassing American Stuff: The Library of Congress's New Deal Arts Collections. Sound recording [of symposium, Dec. 1994]. Washington, D.C. Center for the Book, Library of Congress, 1994.
America, 1935-1946. Cambridge, England: Chadwyck-Healey Ltd., 1980. Microfiche.
Baldwin, Sidney. Poverty and Politics. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1968.
Berger, Maurice. FSA: The Illiterate Eye: Photographs from the Farm Security Administration. New York: Hunter College Art Gallery, 1985.
Bernstein, Irving. A Caring Society: The New Deal, the Worker, and the Great Depression: A History of the American Worker, 1933-1941. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1985.
Conkin, Paul K. Tomorrow a New World: The New Deal Community Program. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1959.
Cohen, Stuart, ed. The Likes of Us: Photography and the Farm Security Administration. Foreword by Peter Bacon Hales. Jaffrey, N.H.: D.R. Godine, 2007. Call number: E169 .C66 2007
Curtis, James. Mind's Eye, Mind's Truth: FSA Photography Reconsidered. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, c1989. CALL NUMBER Call number: TR820.5 .C87 1989
Daniel, Pete, Merry Foresta, Maren Stange and Sally Stein. Official Images: New Deal Photography. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1987.
DeLong, Lea Rosson, Michael Gontesky, and Julie D. Nelson. New Deal Art of the Upper Midwest: An Anniversary Exhibition: Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, Prints, Posters, Farm Security Administration Photographs, October 8-December 31, 1988. Sioux City, Iowa: Sioux City Art Center, c1988. Call number: N6522 .D45 1988 Copy 1
Denning, Michael. The Cultural Front: The Laboring of American Culture in the Twentieth Century. New York: Verso, 1997.
Dykeman, Wilma and James Stokely. Seeds of Southern Change: The Life of Will Alexander. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962.
Finnegan, Cara A. Picturing Poverty: Print Culture and FSA Photographs. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, c2003. Call number: TR23 .F55 2003 FSA Carrel.
Fleischhauer, Carl and Beverly W. Brannan, eds. Documenting America, 1935-1943. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988.
Fleischhauer, Carl. "Selecting Photographs for the FSA/OWI Print File: a Photo-Assignment Case Study: John Vachon's Documentation of the Roanoke Farms Resettlement Project, Halifax County, North Carolina, April 1938" (25 June 2020). [pdf, 7.8 mb]. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/coll/Vachon_FSA-1938-RoanokeFarms.pdf
Garver, Thomas. Just Before the War. Balboa, California: Newport Harbor Art Museum, 1968.
Grey, Michael R. New Deal Medicine: The Rural Health Programs of the Farm Security Administration. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. CALL NUMBER Call number: RA771.5 .G74 1999 FSA
Guimond, James. American Photography and the American Dream. Chapel Hill and London: The University Press of North Carolina, 1991.
Hassner, Rune. FSA, dokumenta¨rfotografi fra°n 30-talets USA [Trollha¨ttan]: ABF Bohus-A¨lvsborg, [1987] Call number: E169 .F93 1987
Hurley, F. Jack. Portrait of a Decade. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1972.
Just Before the War; Urban America from 1935 to 1941 As Seen by Photographers of the Farm Security Administration. [Los Angeles: Rapid Lithograph Co., 1968] Call number: E169 .J86
Kennedy, David M. Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Kidd, Stuart. Farm Security Administration Photography, The Rural South, and the Dynamics of Image-Making, 1935-1943. Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press, c2004. Call number: TR820.5 .K53 2004
Lesy, Michael. Long Time Coming: A Photographic Portrait of America, 1935-1943. New York: Norton, c2002. Call number: E169 .L597 2002 FSA Carrel
Leuchtenberg, William E. Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1940. New York: Harper and Row, 1963.
McElvaine, Robert S. The Great Depression, America, 1929-1941. New York: Times Books, 1984.
Meyerowitz, Joel and Colin Westerbeck. Bystander: A History of Street Photography with a New Afterword on Street Photography since the 1970s. New York: Bulfinch, 2001.
Mora, Gilles and Beverly W. Brannan. FSA: The American Vision. New York: Abrams, c2006. Call number: TR820.5 .B736 2006
Newhall, Beaumont. "Documentary Approach to Photography." Parnassus March 1938: 3-6.
O'Neal, Hank. A Vision Shared: A Classic Portrait of America and Its People, 1935-1943. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1976.
Orbach, Barbara and Nicholas Natanson. "The Mirror Image: Black Washington in World War II Era Federal Photography," in Washington History 4, no. 1 (Spring/Summer 1992): 4-25.
Preston, Catherine L. In Retrospect: The Construction and Communication of a National Visual Memory. [Philadelphia, Pa.?]: 1995. Call number: TR820.5 .P72 1995 FSA
Rasmussen, Wayne D. A History of the Emergency Farm Labor Supply Program, 1943-47. Agriculture Monograph no. 13. Washington: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Agricultural Economics, 1951.
Raeburn, John. A Staggering Revolution: A Cultural History of Thirties Photography. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, c2006. Call number: TR653 .R342006
Robinson, Gerald H. Elusive Truth: Four Photographers at Manzanar. Nevada City, Calif.: C. Mautz, 2002. CALL NUMBER: D769.8.A6 R627 2002 http://lccn.loc.gov/2003389687
Rosenheim, Jeff L., ed. Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Henri Cartier-Bresson and Walker Evans: Documentary and Anti-Graphic Photographs. Steidl, 2004.
Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr. The Crisis of the Old Order, 1919-1933. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1957.
Severin, Werner Joseph. Photographic Documentation by the Farm Security Administration, 1935-1942. 1959. Call number: TR23 .S48
Spicer, Edward H., Asael T. Hansen, Katherine Luomala, and Marvin K. Opler. Impounded People: Japanese-Americans in the Relocation Centers. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1969.
Stange, Maren. Symbols of Ideal Life: Social Documentary Photography in America, 1890-1950. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
Steichen, Edward, ed. The Bitter Years: 1935-1941; Rural America as seen by the Photographers of the Farm Security Administration. New York, Museum of Modern Art; distributed by Doubleday, Garden City, N.Y. [1962]. Call number: HN57 .A535 FSA Carrel
Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath. New York: Viking Press, 1939.
Stott, William. Documentary Expression in Thirties America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1973. Reprint. London: Oxford University Press, 1976.
Stryker, Roy Emerson and Nancy Wood. In This Proud Land. Greenwich, Conn.: New York Graphic society, 1973. Reprint. New York: Galahad Books, 1975.
Susman, Warren. Culture as History: The Transformation of American Society in the Twentieth Century. New York: Pantheon Books, 1984.
Thompson, Rose (collector). Hush, Child! Can't You Hear the Music? edited by Charles Beaumont ; foreword by John Stewart. Published/Created: Athens: University of Georgia Press, c1982. Call number: GR111.A47 H87 1982
United States. Department of Agriculture. The Negro in American Agriculture. [Washington, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1940.]
United States. Office of War Information. Handbook of Emergency War Agencies. Washington: Government Printing Office, March 1943.
Vanderbilt, Paul. Guide to the Special Collections of Prints and Photographs in the Library of Congress. Washington: Library of Congress, 1955. Reprint. Wakefield, R.I.: Asphodel Press, 1997.
Winkler, Allan M. The Politics of Propaganda: The Office of War Information, 1942-1945. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1978.
Works Progress Administration. Federal Writers' Project Life Histories. Manuscript Division, Library of Congress.
The Years of Bitterness and Pride: Farm Security Administration, FSA photographs, 1935-1943. Walker Evans [et al.]. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1975. Call number: HC106.3 .Y4
FSA Color Photographs
Bound for Glory: America in Color, 1939-43. Introduction by Paul Hendrickson. New York: H.N. Abrams in association with the Library of Congress, 2004. Call number: TR820.5 .B685 2004.
Stein, Sally. "FSA Color: The Forgotten Document." Modern Photography (January 1979): 90-99, 162-64, 166.
FSA/OWI - By State
Alabama
Agee, James and Walker Evans. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1941. Revised edition, 1960.
Five Cent Cotton: Images of the Depression in Alabama. Birmingham, Ala.: Birmingham Public Library, 1982.
Arkansas
Counts, I. Wilmer. A Photographic Legacy. [Bloomington, Ind.]: I.W. Counts, 1979.
Colorado
Leonard, Stephen J. Trials and Triumphs: A Colorado Portrait of the Great Depression, with FSA Photographs. Niwot: University Press of Colorado, 1993.
Connecticut
Eiseman, Alberta. In Touch with the Land: Images of Connecticut Farm Life, 1937-1985. [Hartford: Connecticut State Library] 1985.
Florida
Carlebach, Michael L. and Eugene F. Provenzo, Jr. Farm Security Administration Photographs of Florida. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1993.
Georgia
Montgomery, Denise, Louis Schmier and David Williams. "The Other Depression: A Farm Administration Family in Carroll County, 1941. The Georgia Historical Quarterly 77, no. 4 (Winter 1993): 811-822.
Schmier, Louis and Denise Montgomery. "The Other Depression: The Black Experience in Georgia Through an FSA Photographer's Lens." The Georgia Historical Quarterly 78, no. 1, (Spring 1994): 133-148.
Illinois
Reid, Robert L. and Larry Viskochil, ed. Chicago and Downstate: Illinois as Seen by the Farm Security Administration Photographers, 1935-1943. Chicago: Chicago Historical Society, 1989.
Russell, Herbert K. A Southern Illinois Album: Farm Security Administration Photographs, 1936-1943. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1990.
Indiana
Reid, Robert L., ed. Back Home Again: Indiana in the Farm Security Administration Photographs, 1935-1943. Bloomington, Ind.: University Press, 1987.
Iowa
Zielinski, John M. Unknown Iowa: Farm Security photos. 1936-1941. Kalona, Iowa: Photo-Art Gallery Publications, 1977.
Kansas
Schulz, Constance B., editor. Bust to Boom: Documentary Photographs of Kansas, 1936 - 1949. Lawrence, Kans.: University Press of Kansas, 1996.
Kentucky
Brannan, Beverly W. and David Horvath, ed. A Kentucky Album. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1986.
Louisiana
Dablow, Dean. The Rain Are Fallin: A Search for the People and Places Photographed by the Farm Security Administration in Louisiana, 1935-1943. Tollhouse, Calif.: Scrub Jay Press, 2001. Call number: TR820.5 .D34 2001 FSA
Maine
Doty, C. Stewart. Acadian Hard Times: the Farm Security Administration in Maine's St. John Valley, 1940-1943. Orono: University of Maine Press, 1991.
Michigan
Schulz, Constance B., ed. Michigan Remembered: Photographs from the Farm Security Administration and the Office of War Information, 1936-1943 with introductory essays by Constance B. Schulz and William H. Mulligan, Jr. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, c2001. Call number: F567 .M57 2001 Copy1
Minnesota
Reid, Robert L., ed. Picturing Minnesota, 1936-1943: Photographs from the Farm Security Administration. St. Paul, Minnesota: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1989.
Mississippi
Black, Patti Carr. Mules & Mississippi. [Jackson]: Mississippi Department of Archives and History, 1980.
Missouri
Parker, Paul E. A Portrait of Missouri, 1935-1943: Photographs from the Farm Security Administration. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, c2002. Call number: F466 .P265 2002 FSA Carrel
New Mexico
Colson, J.B. Far from Main Street: Three Photographers in Depression-era New Mexico: Russell Lee, John Collier, Jr., and Jack Delano. Santa Fe: Museum of New Mexico Press, 1994.
Penn, Michael. "Con Nombre," On Wisconsin (Summer 2002). Available online: http://www.uwalumni.com/nombre.aspx
Threads of Culture: Photography in New Mexico, 1939-1943, Russell Lee, John Collier, Jr., Jack Delano: The Pinewood Collection of FSA Photography. Santa Fe: Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of New Mexico, 1993.
Weigle, Marta, ed. Hispano Folklife of New Mexico: the Lorin W. Brown Federal Writers' Project Manuscripts. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1978.
Weigle, Marta, ed. New Mexicans in Cameo and Camera: New Deal Documentation of Twentieth-century Lives. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1985.
Weigle, Marta, comp. and ed. Women of New Mexico: Depression Era Images. Santa Fe, N.M.: Ancient City Press, 1993.
Wood, Nancy C. Heartland New Mexico: Photographs from the Farm Security Administration, 1935-1943. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1989.
Wroth, William, ed. Russell Lee's FSA photographs of Chamisal and Penasco, New Mexico. Santa Fe, N. Mex.: Ancient City Press; Colorado Springs, Colo.: Taylor Museum of the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, 1985.
Ohio
Carr, Carolyn Kinder. Ohio, a Photographic Portrait, 1935-1941: Farm Security Administration Photographs. Akron, Ohio: Akron Art Institute; Kent, Ohio: Distributed by Kent State University Press, 1980.
Pennsylvania
Cohen, Allen and Ronald L. Filippelli, compilers. Times of Sorrow & Hope: Documenting Everyday Life in Pennsylvania During the Depression and World War II: A Photographic Record with a foreword by Miles Orvell. University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press, c2003. Call number: F154 .T56 2003
Puerto Rico
[Meneses Pallares, Arturo] Rehabilitacio´n rural en los Estados Unidos, la obra de la Administracio´n de seguro agri´cola. Washington, D.C.: Unio´n panamericana, Oficina de informacio´n obrera y social, 1943. Call number: HD1765.1943 .M4 http://lccn.loc.gov/43053642
South Carolina
Schulz, Constance B. A South Carolina Album, 1936-1948: Documentary Photography in the Palmetto State from the Farm Security Administration, Office of War Information, and Standard Oil of New Jersey. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1991.
Texas
Reid, Robert L. Picturing Texas: The FSA-OWI Photographers in the Lone Star State, 1935- 1943. Austin: Texas State Historical Assoc., 1994.
Utah
Cannon, Brian Q. Life and Land: the Farm Security Administration Photographers in Utah, 1936-1941. January 10-March 6, 1988, Peter S. Briggs, curator. [Salt Lake City, Utah]: Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University: Logan, Utah: Distributed by Utah State University Press, 1988.
Vermont
Graff, Nancy Price. Looking Back at Vermont: Farm Security Administration Photographs, 1936-1942. Middlebury, Vt.: Middlebury College Museum of Art; Hanover [N.H.]: c2002. Call number: F54 .G69 2002 FSA
Hastings, Scott E. and Elsie R. Hastings. Up in the Morning Early: Vermont Farm Families in the Thirties. Hanover, N. H.: University Press of New England, 1992.
Virginia
Johnson, Brooks. Mountaineers to Main Streets: the Old Dominion Seen Through the Farm Security Administration Photographs. Norfolk, Va: Chrysler Museum, 1985.
Martin-Perdue, Nancy and Charles L. Perdue, Jr. Talk about Trouble: a New Deal Portrait of Virginians in the Great Depression. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996.
Photographers and Staff
Dixon, Penelope. Photographers of the Farm Security Administration: An Annotated Bibliography, 1930-1980. New York: Garland Publishing, 1983.
Fisher, Andrea. Let Us Now Praise Famous Women: Women Photographers for the U.S. Government, 1935 to 1944: Esther Bubley, Marjory Collins, Pauline Ehrlich, Dorothea Lange, Martha McMillan Roberts, Marion Post Wolcott, Ann Rosener, Louise Rosskam. New York: Pandora Press, 1987.
Esther Bubley
Bubley, Esther, photos, and Percy Knauth, text. A Mysterious Presence: Macrophotography of Plants. New York: Workman Publishing Company, 1979.
Bubley, Esther. Esther Bubley's World of Children in Photographs. New York: Dover Publications, 1981.
Bubley, Esther. The Photographs of Esther Bubley. Introduction by Melissa Fay Greene. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress; London: Giles, 2010. Call Number: TR820.5 .B45 2010 (P&P Ref FSA Carrel)
O'Neal. Hank. With photographs by Esther Bubley. Charlie Parker. Paris: Filipacchi, 1995. Printed in French only.
Selam, Millicent Ellis. How Puppies Grow. Photos by Esther Bubley. New York: Four Winds Press, 1971.
Selam, Millicent Ellis. How Kittens Grow. Photos by Esther Bubley. New York: Four Winds Press, 1973.
Yochelson, Bonnie with Tracy A. Schmid. Esther Bubley: On Assignment. New York: Aperture, c2005. Call number: TR140.B817 Y63 2005
Paul Carter
Carter, John Franklin. The Rectory Family. New York: Coward-McCann, 1937.
John Collier, Jr.
Adair, John, Kurt W. Deuschle, Clifford R. Barnett et al. Photographs by John Collier, Jr. People's Health: Medicine and Anthropology in a Navajo Community. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1988.
Collier, John and Anibal Buitron. The Awakening Valley. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1949. 199 pp.
Collier, John. Visual Anthropology: Photography as a Research Method. New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston, 1967.
Doty, C. Stewart, Dale Sperry Mudge, Herbert John Benally, photographs by John Collier, Jr. Photographing Navajos: John Collier, Jr. on the Reservation, 1948-1953. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2002.
Jack Delano
Blanco, Tomas. Los Aguinaldos del Infante: glosa de Epifania. With musical ornament by Jack Delano and illus. by Irene Delano. San Juan, P.R.: Pan American Book Co., 1954. Reprint Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1976.
The Conquest and Settlement of the Island of Boriquen or Puerto Rico. Illustrated by Jack and Irene Delano. Avon, Conn.: Printed for the members of the Limited Editions Club, 1975. Selections from Historia General y Natural de las Indias by Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo y Valdes.
Delano, Jack. Photographic Memories. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1997.
Delano, Jack, Ronald E. Ostman and Royal D. Colle. Superfortress Over Japan: Twenty-four- Hours with a B-29. Osceola, WI: Motorbooks International, 1996.
Delano, Jack. De San Juan a Ponce en el tren. Rio Piedras, P.R.: Editorial de la Universidad de Puerto Rico, 1990.
Delano, Jack. El Dia que el pueblo se despidio de Munoz. Puerto Rico: Fundacion Luis Munoz Marin, 1987.
Delano, Jack. En busca del Maestro Rafael Cordero, with Irene Delano. Rio Piedras, P.R.: Editorial de la Universidad de Puerto Rico, 1994.
Delano, Jack. Photographic Memories. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1997.
Delano, Jack. The Photographs of Jack Delano. Introduction by Esmeralda Santiago. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress; London: Giles, 2010. Call Number: TR820.5 .D43 2010 (P&P Ref FSA Carrel)
Delano, Jack. ["Joaquin", pseud.]. That's Life. San Juan, P.R.: Editorial de la Universidad de Puerto Rico, 1996.
Delano, Jack. Sabios arboles, magicos arboles. San Juan, P.R.: Division de Educacion de la Comunidad del Departamento de Instruccion Publica de Puerto Rico, 1975.
Olsen, Helen K. Stupid Peter and Other Tales. Illustrated by Jack and Irene Delano. New York: Random House, 1970.
Ostman, Ronald E. and Royal D. Colle. Superfortress over Japan: Twenty-four Hours with a B-29. Osceola, WI: Motorbooks International, 1996.
Vale, James E. The Iron Horse at War: The United States Government's Photodocumentary Project on American Railroading during the Second World War. With 272 photos by Jack Delano. Berkeley: Howell-North Books, 1977.
Van Leeuwen, Jean. The Emperor's New Clothes. Illustrated by Jack and Irene Delano. New York: Random House, 1973.
Vidal, Teodoro. Las caretas de carton del Carnaval de Ponce. Fotografias por Jack Delano. Caparra Heights, San Juan, P.R.: Ediciones Alba, 1982.
Sheldon Dick
Mackie, Edith and Sheldon Dick. Mexican Journey: An Intimate Guide to Mexico. Illustrated with photographs by the authors. New York: Dodge Publishing Company, 1935.
Walker Evans
Agee, James and Walker Evans. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1941.
Brannan, Beverly W. and Judith Keller. "Walker Evans: Two Albums in the Library of Congress," in History of Photography. (Washington, DC): 19, no. 1 (Spring 1995): 60-66.
Brix, Michael. Walker Evans, America. New York: Rizzoli , 1991.
Codrescu, Andrei. Walker Evans: Signs. California: Getty Trust Publications: J. Paul Getty Museum, 1998.
Evans, Walker. American Photographs. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1938.
Evans, Walker. Papers. Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, NY.
Evans, Walker. Many Are Called. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1966.
Evans, Walker. Walker Evans. New York: Aperture Foundation, 1963.
Evans, Walker. Walker Evans at Work. New York: Harper and Row, 1982.
Evans, Walker, Andrei Codrescu and Judith Keller. Walker Evans: Cuba. Getty Trust Publications: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2001.
Evans, Walker and Jeff L. Rosenheim. Walker Evans: Polaroids. Zurich/Berlin/New York: Scalo in association with The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2001.
Evans, Walker, Luke Sante, Jeff L. Rosenheim, and James Agee. Many Are Called. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004.
Galassi, Peter, et al. Walker Evans & Company. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2002.
Greenough, Sarah. Walker Evans Subways and Streets. Washington, DC: The National Gallery of Art, 1991.
Hill, John T. and Walker Evans. Walker Evans: Lyric Documentary. Go¨ttingen: Steidl, 2006.
Keller, Judith. Walker Evans: The Getty Museum Collection. Malibu, Ca.: J. Paul Getty Museum, 1995.
Kingston, Rodger. Walker Evans in Print: An Illustrated Bibliography. Bellmont, Mass.: P.R. Kingston Photographs, 1995.
Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division. Walker Evans: Photographs for the Farm Security Administration, 1935-1938; a catalog of photographic prints available from the Farm Security Administration collection in the Library of Congress. Introduction by Jerald C. Maddox. New York: Da Capo Press. 1973. Reprint 1975.
Mellow, James R. Walker Evans. New York: Basic Books, 1999. Mellow, James R. and Hilton Kramer. Walker Evans. New York: Basic Books, c1999. Call Number: TR140.E92 M45 1999
Mora, Gilles and John T. Hill. Walker Evans: The Hungry Eye.[translated from the French by Jacqueline Taylor]. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1993. Call Number:: TR654 .M63484 1993
Nau, Thomas. Walker Evans: Photographer of America. New Milford, Conn.: Roaring Brook Press, c2007. Call Number: TR140.E92 N38 2007
Rathbone, Belinda. Walker Evans: A Biography. New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1995.
Rosenheim, Jeff L. "Walker Evans and Jane Ninas in New Orleans, 1935-1936." New Orleans: The Historic New Orleans Collection, 1991.
Rosenheim, Jeff L., Alexis Schwarzenbach, and Walker Evans. Unclassified-- A Walker Evans Anthology: Selections from the Walker Evans Archive, Department of Photographs, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Zurich/Berlin/New York: Scalo in association with The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000.
Rosenheim, Jeff L, Maria Morris Hambourg, Douglas Eklund, and Mia Fineman. Walker Evans. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press in association with The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2004.
Storey, Isabelle. Walker's Way: My Years with Walker Evans. Brooklyn, NY : PowerHouse Books.
Walker Evans. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1971.
Walker Evans: Photographs: [catalogue of] an exhibition circulated under the auspices of the International Council of the Museum of Modern Art, New York [held at the] Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, 18 September-31 October 1976. Published/Created: [London]: Arts Council of Great Britain, 1976. Call number: TR820.5 .E9 1976
Javitz, Romana. Interviewed by Richard K. Doud. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, February 23, 1965.
Rathbone, Belinda. Walker Evans: A Biography. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1995.
Theodor Jung
Auer, Anna. Übersee Flucht und Emigration : österreichischer Fotografen, 1920-1940 = Exodus from Austria : Emigration of Austrian Photographers 1920-1940. [Vienna]: Kunsthalle Wien, c1997.
Auer, Anna. Interview with Richard K. Doud. San Francisco, CA, January 19, 1965. www.aaa.si.edu/oralhist/jung65.htm
Dorothea Lange
Borhan, Pierre. With essays by A.D. Coleman, Ralph Gibson, and Sam Stourdze. Dorothea Lange: The Heart and Mind of a Photographer. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 2002.
Brannan, Beverly and Kathy Ann Brown. Lange included in Library of Congress exhibition Women Come to the Front www.loc.gov/exhibits/wcf/wcf0001.html
Conrat, Maisie and Richard Conrat. Executive Order 9066: The Internment of 110,000 Japanese Americans. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1972.
Fulton, Marianne, ed. With text by Bonnie Yochelson and Kathleen A. Erwin. Pictorialism into Modernism. The Clarence H. White School of Photography. New York: Rizzoli, 1996. George Eastman House in Association with The Detroit Institute of Arts.
Gordon, Linda. Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits. London ; New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2009. Call Number: TR140.L3 G67 2009
Gordon, Linda and Gary Y. Okihiro, ed. Impounded: Dorothea Lange and the Censored Images of Japanese American Internment. New York: W.W. Norton, c2006. Call number: D769.8.A6 L35 2006 FSA
Heyman, Therese Thau. Celebrating a Collection: The Work of Dorothea Lange. Oakland: The Oakland Museum, 1978.
Lange, Dorothea. Farm Security Administration photographs, 1935-1939: From the Library of Congress / with writings by Paul S. Taylor; edited by Howard M. Levin and Katherine Northrup; introd. by Robert J. Doherty. Glencoe, Ill.: Text-Fiche Press, 1980. Call number: HN57 .L32 Micro
Lange, Dorothea. Interview by Richard Doud, May 22, 1964. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. www.aaa.si.edu/oralhist/lange64.html
Meltzer, Milton. Dorothea Lange: A Photographer's Life. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1978.
Ohrn, Karin Becker. Dorothea Lange and the Documentary Tradition. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1960.
Partridge, Elizabeth, ed., Dorothea Lange: A Visual Life. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1994.
Partridge, Elizabeth, ed. Restless Spirit: The Life and Work of Dorothea Lange. New York: Viking, 1998.
Spirn, Anne Whiston. Daring to Look: Dorothea Lange's Photographs and Reports from the Field. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, c2008. Call number: HD1525 .S66 2008
Taylor, Paul S. and Dorothea Lange. An American Exodus: A Record of Human Erosion. New York: Reynal and Hitchcock, 1939. Reprint: Paris: Jean-Michel Place, 1999.
Russell Lee
Appel, Mary Jane. Russell Lee: A Photographer's Life and Legacy. New York, NY: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company; [Washington, D.C.]: Library of Congress, [2021]
Appel, Mary Jane. "Russell Werner Lee: The Man Who Made America's Portrait," essay in Russell Lee: A Centenary Exhibition. San Marcos, Texas State University: March 29-October 12, 2003.
Hurley, Jack. Russell Lee, Photographer. Dobbs Ferry, NY: Morgan and Morgan, 1978.
Lee, Russell. The Photographs of Russell Lee. Introduction by Nicholas Lemann. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress in association with Giles, 2008. Call Number: TR820.5 .L41956 2008 (P&P Ref FSA Carrel)
Lee, Russell. "Pie Town." Creative Camera 193/194 (July-August 1980): 246-53.
Wroth, William, ed. Russell Lee's FSA Photographs of Chamisal and Penasco, New Mexico. Santa Fe, NM: Ancient City Press, 1985.
Carl Mydans
Mydans, Carl. Carl Mydans, Photojournalist. With an interview by Philip B. Kunhardt, Jr. New York: Abrams, 1985.
Mydans, Carl. Interview with Richard Doud, New York, NY, April 29, 1964. www.aaa.si.edu/oralhist/mydans64.html
Mydans, Carl. The Photographs of Carl Mydans. Introduction by Annie Proulx. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 2011. Call Number: TR820.5 .M93 2011 (P&P Ref FSA Carrel)
Gordon Parks
Bush, Martin H. The Photographs of Gordon Parks. Wichita, Kans.: Wichita State University, 1983.
Parks, Gordon. A Choice of Weapons. New York: Harper and Row, 1966, pp. 234-37.
Parks, Gordon. A Moment in Time: A History of Photography in America (American Documents). Film. Videocassette. Dist. Republic Pictures, 1975.
Parks, Gordon. Half Past Autumn: A Retrospective. Boston: Bulfinch Press, 1997.
Parks, Gordon. Moments Without Proper Names. (NY: Viking Press, 1975.)
Parks, Gordon. The Photographs of Gordon Parks. Introduction by Charles Johnson. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 2011. Call Number: TR820.5 .P2755 2011 (P&P Ref FSA Carrel)
Parks, Gordon. To Smile in Autumn: a Memoir. (NY, London: W.W. Norton and Company, 1979.)
Parks, Gordon. Voices in the Mirror. (NY: Doubleday, 1990.)
Edwin Rosskam
Rosskam, Edwin, and Ruby A. Black, eds. Washington: Nerve Center. New York: Alliance Book Corp., 1939.
Rosskam, Edwin and Louise Rosskam. Towboat River. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1948.
Rosskam, Edwin. The Alien. New York: Grossman Publishers, 1964.
Rosskam, Edwin. Roosevelt, New Jersey: Big Dreams in a Small Town and What Time Did to Them. New York: Grossman, 1972.
Rosskam, Edwin. Interview with Richard Doud. www.aaa.si.edu/oralhist/rosska65.html
Rosskam, Edwin. "The making of a mural," [Handmade photobook presented by photographer-editor Edwin Rosskam to his mother, Christmas, 1942. Shows preparation of giant photomontage in Grand Central Station, NY, at the beginning of World War II] Prints and Photographs Division. Call number: PR 13 CN 1996:043. Served by advance appointment
Rosskam, Edwin. San Francisco, West Coast Metropolis. New York and Toronto: Alliance Book Corporation, Longmans, Green and Company: 1939.
Saretsky, Gary. "Documenting Diversity: Edwin Rosskam and the Photo Book, 1940-41." The Photo Review, Vol. 23, no. 4 (Fall 2000).
---. 'She Worked Her Head Off:' Edwin and Louise Rosskam and the Golden Age of Documentary Photography Books." The Photo Review, Vol. 23, no. 4 (Fall 2002).
Stange, Maren. Bronzeville: Black Chicago in Pictures, 1941-1943. New York: The New Press, 2003.
Wright, Richard, and Edwin Rosskam. Twelve Million Black Voices: A Folk History of the Negro in the United States. New York: Viking Press, 1941.
Louise Rosskam
Rosskam, Louise. Interview with Gary Saretzky, Roosevelt, NJ, March 24, 2000. http://www.visitmonmouth.com/oralhistory/bios/RosskamLouise.htm
Rosskam, Louise. Interview with Richard Doud. www.aaa.si.edu/oralhist/rosska65.html
Rosskam, Louise. Lot 13349. Twenty prints by photojournalist Louise Rosskam and portraits of Rosskam taken by family and friends. Prints and Photographs Division. Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Arthur Rothstein
Rothstein, Arthur. Arthur Rothstein, Words and Pictures. New York : Amphoto/Billboard Publications, 1979.
Rothstein, Arthur. Color Photography Now. New York, American Photographic Book Pub. Co. 1970.
Rothstein, Arthur. "Direction in the Picture Story." The Complete Photographer 21 (10 April 1942): 1356-1363. Revised version in The Encyclopedia of Photography 7, edited by Willard D. Morgan. New York: Greystone Press, 1974.
Rothstein, Arthur. Documentary Photography. Boston: Focal Press, 1986.
Rothstein, Arthur, and William Saroyan. Look at us; let's see; here we are; look hard, speak soft; I see, you see, we all see; stop, look, listen; beholder's eye; don't look now, but isn't that you? (us? U.S.?) New York, Cowles Education Corp., 1967.
Rothstein, Arthur. Interview with Richard Doud. May 25, 1964. www.aaa.si.edu/oralhist/rothst64.htm
Rothstein, Arthur. The Photographs of Arthur Rothstein. Introduction by George Packer. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 2011. Call Number: TR820.5 .R683 2011 (P&P Ref FSA Carrel)
Rothstein, Arthur. Photojournalism: Pictures for Magazines and Newspapers. New York, American Photographic Book Pub. Co. [1956]
Rothstein, Arthur. Unprocessed photographic collection. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
Rothstein, Arthur. Photojournalism. Garden City, N.Y.: Amphoto, 1979.
Rothstein, Arthur. "Versik Process (Microform): First Steps." Ph.D. diss., University of Chicago, 1979.
Saroyan, William. Look at Us; Let's See; Here We Are; Look Hard, Speak Soft; I See, You See, We All See; Stop, Look, Listen; Beholder's Eye; Don't Look Now, But Isn't That You? (Us? U.S.?). Photos. by Arthur Rothstein. New York: Cowles Education Corp., 1967.
Ben Shahn
Edwards, Susan H. "Ben Shahn: A New Deal Photographer in the Old South." Ph.D. diss., City University of New York, 1996.
Greenfeld, Howard. Ben Shahn: An Artist's Life. New York: Random House, 1998.
Kao, Deborah Kao, Laura Katzman, Jenna Webster. Ben Shahn's New York: The Photography of Modern Times. Cambridge, Mass.: Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, 2000.
Katzman, Laura. "The Politics of Media: Ben Shahn and Photography." Diss. Yale University, 1997.
Morse, John D., ed. Ben Shahn. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1972.
Pratt, Davis. The Photographic Eye of Ben Shahn. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1975.
Rodman, Selden. Portrait of the Artist as an American. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1951.
Shahn, Ben. The Photographs of Ben Shahn. Introduction by Timothy Egan. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress in association with Giles, 2008. Call Number: TR820.5 .S483 2008 (P&P Ref FSA Carrel)
Shahn, Ben. The Shape of Content. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1957. Reprint. New York: Vintage Books, 1969.
Shahn, Bernarda Bryson. Ben Shahn. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1972.
Roy Stryker
Plattner, Steven. Roy Stryker: U.S.A., 1943-1950. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1983.
Stryker, Roy E. and Paul H. Johnstone. "Documentary Photographs." In The Cultural Approach to History, edited by Caroline F. Ware. New York: Columbia University Press, 1940.
Stryker, Roy E. "Documentary Photography." The Complete Photographer 21 (10 April 1942): 1364-74. Revised version in The Encyclopedia of Photography 7, edited by Willard D. Morgan. New York: Greystone Press, 1974.
Stryker, Roy Emerson. Interview with Richard Doud. Montrose, Colo., 1963. www.aaa.si.edu/oralhist/stryke63.htm
Stryker, Roy and Mel Seidenberg, compilers, writers and editors. A Pittsburgh Album, 1758-1958; Two Hundred Years of Memories in Pictures and Text. [Pittsburgh? 1959]
Stryker, Roy, and Nancy C. Wood. In This Proud Land: America, 1935-1943, As Seen in the FSA Photographs. New York: Galahad Books, 1973.
Roy Stryker Papers, 1912-1972. Microfilm edition, Edited by David Horvath for the University of Louisville Photographic Archives. Teaneck, N.J., 1982, Chadwyck-Healey.
Thomas, Clarke M., Constance B. Schulz and Steven Wight Plattner. Witness to the Fifties. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1999.
Tugwell, Rexford G., Thomas Munro and Roy Stryker. American Economic Life and the Means of Its Improvement. (2d rev. ed.) New York: Harcourt, Brace, and Co., 1925.
John Vachon
Hull, Anne. "John Vachon, Noted Cameraman, Departs." Greenbelt [Maryland] Cooperator 8, no. 8 (8 October 1943): 1-2.
Vachon, John. Interview with Richard Doud. www.aaa.si.edu/oralhist/vachon
Vachon, John; edited, with introductory texts, by Miles Orvell. John Vachon's America: Photographs and Letters from the Depression to World War II. Berkeley: University of California Press, c2003. Call number: TR140.V33 A4 2003 FSA Carrel
Vachon, John. The Photographs of John Vachon. Introduction by Kurt Andersen. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress; London: Giles, 2010. Call Number: TR820.5 .V32 2010 (P&P Ref FSA Carrel)
Vachon, John. Poland, 1946: The Photographs and Letters of John Vachon. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995.
Vachon, Ann, ed. Poland, 1946: The Photographs and Letters of John Vachon. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995.
Marion Post Wolcott
Hendrickson, Paul. Looking for the Light: The Hidden Life and Art of Marion Post Wolcott. New York: Knopf, 1992.
Hurley, F. Jack. Marion Post Wolcott: A Photographic Journey. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1989.
Wolcott, Marion Post. Marion Post Wolcott: FSA Photographs. Introduction by Sally Stein. Carmel, California: Friends of Photography, 1983.
Wolcott, Marion Post. The Photographs of Marion Post Wolcott. Introduction by Francine Prose. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress in association with Giles, 2008. Call Number: TR820.5 .W654 2008 (P&P Ref FSA Carrel )
Topics
Ganzel, Bill. Dust Bowl Descent. Lincoln, Neb.: University of Nebraska Press, 1984.
Hazzard-Gordon, Katrina. Jookin': The Rise of Social Dance Formations in African-American Culture. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990.
Keller, Ulrich. The Highway as Habitat: A Roy Stryker Documentation. Santa Barbara, Calif.: University Art Museum, 1986.
Maharidge, Dale and Michael Williamson. And Their Children After Them: the Legacy of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, James Agee, Walker Evans, and the Rise and Fall of Cotton in the South. New York: Pantheon Books, 1989.
Natanson, Nicholas. The Black Image in the New Deal: The Politics of the FSA Photography. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1992.
Remsberg, Rich. Hard Luck Blues: Roots Music Photographs from the Great Depression. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, c2010. Call Number: ML87 .R47 2010 (P&P Ref FSA Carrel )
Stoeckle, John D., and George Abbott White. Plain Pictures of Plain Doctoring. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1985.
Valle, James E. The Iron Horse at War: The United States Government's Photodocumentary Project on American Railroading during the Second World War. With 272 photos by Jack Delano. Berkeley: Howell-North Books, 1977.
White, George Abbott. "Vernacular Photography: FSA Images of Depression Leisure." Visual Communication 9, no. 1 (Winter 1983): 53-75.
Influences on the FSA-OWI Project
Smith, J. Russell. North America, Its People and the Resources, Development, and Prospects of the Continent as an Agricultural, Industrial, and Commercial Area. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1925.
Tugwell, Rexford G., Thomas Munro, and Roy E. Stryker. American Economic Life. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1925.
Publications Influenced by the FSA-OWI
MacLeish, Archibald. Land of the Free. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1938.
McCamy, James L. Government Publicity. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1939.
Nixon, Herman Clarence. Forty Acres and Steel Mules. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1938.
Raper, Arthur F. Tenants of the Almighty. New York: Macmillan Co., 1943.
Richardson, Lewis Cutter. Puerto Rico, Caribbean Crossroads. New York: U.S. Camera Publishing Corp., [1947].
For Young Readers
Andryszewski, Tricia. The Dust Bowl: Disaster on the Plains. Brookfield, Connecticut: Millbrook Press, 1993.
Evans, Walker. Something Permanent. Poetry by Cynthia Rylant. San Diego: Harcourt Brace & Co., 1994.
Farris, John. The Dust Bowl. San Diego: Lucent Books, 1989.
Hesse, Karen. Out of the Dust. New York: Scholastic Press, 1997.
Rylant, Cynthia. Appalachia: The Voices of Sleeping Birds. San Diego: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1991.
Stanley, Jerry. Children of the Dust Bowl: The True Story of the School at Weedpath Camp. New York:Crown, 1992.
Turner, Robyn Montanna. Dorothea Lange. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1994.
Related Web Sites
Documenting America, 1935-1943: FSA/OWI Photos (Videos - Journeys & Crossings site)
FSA/OWI Color Photographs: Collection Connections (Teachers page)
Photographs from the Great Depression: The World of Jacob Have I Loved (Teachers page)
New Deal Programs: Selected Library of Congress Resources
Pittsburgh Photographic Library - Biography of Roy Stryker
Pittsburgh Photographic Library - Biography of Esther Bubley with photos
University of Louisville Library - Roy Stryker Papers
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - Dorothea Lange
The Estate of Esther Bubley
"Voices From the Dust Bowl: The Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection." Papers and sound recordings. Archive of Folk Culture, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. [View online collection]
Photographers' and Organizations' Papers
Collins, Marjory. Papers. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College. Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Delano, Jack. Papers. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Documenting America, 1935-1943, Project Records. Supplementary Archives, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Farm Security Administration-Office of War Information. "Written Records of the Farm Security Administration, Historical Section--Office of War Information, Overseas Picture Division, Washington Section Collection," Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Call number: LOT 12024 [View description]
Lange, Dorothea. Interview by Richard Doud, 22 May 1964. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Lange, Dorothea. Papers. Oakland Museum of Art. Oakland, California.
Parks, Gordon. Interview by Richard Doud, 28, April 1964. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Stryker, Roy E. Papers. Photographic Archives, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky.
Stryker, Roy E. Papers. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Wolcott, Marion Post. Papers. Center for Creative Photography. Tucson, Arizona.
