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Author : Dorothea Lange
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015038432202
"A fascinating look at the radical changes set loose by the Pacific War that totally transformed the Bay Area.... All those interested in Bay Area history will want to take look at it". -- San Francisco Examiner
Author : Laurent Roosens,Luc Salu
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780720123548
The fourth volume in a history of photography, this is a bibliography of books on the subject.
Author : C. Dorn
Publisher : Springer
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2007-10-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780230608887
American Education, Democracy, and the Second World War examines how U.S. educational institutions during World War II responded to the dilemma of whether to serve as "weapons" in the nation s arsenal of democracy or "citadels" in safeguarding the American way of life. By studying the lives of wartime Americans, as well as nursery schools, elementary and secondary schools, and universities, Charles Dorn makes the case that although wartime pressures affected educational institutions to varying degrees, these institutions resisted efforts to be placed solely in service of the nation s war machine. Instead, Dorn argues, American education maintained a sturdy commitment to fostering civic mindedness in a society characterized by rapid technological advance and the perception of an ever-increasing threat to national security.
Author : Linda Gordon
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 601 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2010-10-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393346374
Winner of the 2010 Bancroft Prize and finalist for the 2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Biography: The definitive biography of a heroic chronicler of America's Depression and one of the twentieth century's greatest photographers. We all know Dorothea Lange's iconic photos—the Migrant Mother holding her child, the shoeless children of the Dust Bowl—but now renowned American historian Linda Gordon brings them to three-dimensional life in this groundbreaking exploration of Lange's transformation into a documentarist. Using Lange's life to anchor a moving social history of twentieth-century America, Gordon masterfully re-creates bohemian San Francisco, the Depression, and the Japanese-American internment camps. Accompanied by more than one hundred images—many of them previously unseen and some formerly suppressed—Gordon has written a sparkling, fast-moving story that testifies to her status as one of the most gifted historians of our time. Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; a New York Times Notable Book; New Yorker's A Year's Reading; and San Francisco Chronicle Best Book.
Author : Elizabeth Partridge
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781452131962
Explore the life and work of a great twentieth-century photographer in this monograph and companion book to the eponymous PBS American Masters episode. This beautiful volume celebrates one of the twentieth century’s most important photographers, Dorothea Lange. Led off by an authoritative biographical essay by Elizabeth Partridge (Lange’s goddaughter), the book goes on to showcase Lange’s work in over a hundred glorious plates. Dorothea Lange is the only career-spanning monograph of this major photographer’s oeuvre in print, and features images ranging from her iconic Depression-era photograph “Migrant Mother” to lesser-known images from her global travels later in life. Presented as the companion book to a PBS American Masters episode that aired in 2014, this ebook offers an intimate and unparalleled view into the life and work of one of our most cherished documentary photographers. “In Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning, Lange’s goddaughter Elizabeth Partridge, an accomplished and prolific author in her own right, presents a first-of-its-kind career-spanning monograph of the legendary photographer’s work, placing her most famous and enduring photographs in a biographical context that adds new dimension to these iconic images.” —Brain Pickings “Although she may be known best for her stirring portraits of Depression-era life, photojournalist Dorothea Lange had a career that spanned decades and continents. This new book was carefully curated by her goddaughter, Elizabeth Partridge, and represents the most comprehensive collection of Lange’s work to date.” —Reader’s Digest.com
Author : Carl J. Schneider,Dorothy Schneider
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : United States
ISBN : 9781438108902
Firsthand accounts and brief biographies describe how Americans were affected by the events surrounding World War II.
Author : Marilynn S. Johnson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1996-12-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520207011
"At last, a close-in account of California during its moment of rebirth, World War II. . . . A book that helps us to understand California's past and also its present."—James N. Gregory, author of American Exodus
Author : Betsy Fahlman
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2009-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0816522928
ArizonaÕs art history is emblematic of the story of the modern West, and few periods in that history were more significant than the era of the New Deal. From Dorothea Lange and Ansel Adams to painters and muralists including Native American Gerald Nailor, the artists working in Arizona under New Deal programs were a notable group whose art served a distinctly public purpose. Their photography, paintings, and sculptures remain significant exemplars of federal art patronage and offer telling lessons positioned at the intersection of community history and culture. Art is a powerful instrument of historical record and cultural construction, and many of the issues captured by the Farm Security Administration photographers remain significant issues today: migratory labor, the economic volatility of the mining industry, tourism, and water usage. Art tells important stories, too, including the work of Japanese American photographer Toyo Miyatake in ArizonaÕs internment camps, murals by Native American artist Gerald Nailor for the Navajo Nation Council Chamber in Window Rock, and African American themes at Fort Huachuca. Illustrated with 100 black-andwhite photographs and covering a wide range of both media and themes, this fascinating and accessible volume reclaims a richly textured story of Arizona history with potent lessons for today.
Author : Colleen Skidmore
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-01
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780774867078
Rare Merit is a beautifully illustrated and astute examination of women photographers in Canada as it took shape in the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Throughout, the camera was both a witness to the colonialism, capitalism, and gendered and racialized social organization, and a protagonist. And women across the country, whether residents or visitors, captured people and places that were entirely new to the lens. This book shows how they did so, and the meaning their work carries.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Heritage Capital Corporation
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1599672642
Author : Marta Effinger-Crichlow
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781607323129
Staging Migrations toward an American West examines how black women's theatrical and everyday performances of migration toward the American West expose the complexities of their struggles for sociopolitical emancipation. While migration is often viewed as merely a physical process, Effinger-Crichlow expands the concept to include a series of symbolic internal journeys within confined and unconfined spaces. Four case studies consider how the featured women—activist Ida B. Wells, singer Sissieretta "Black Patti” Jones, World War II black female defense-industry workers, and performance artist Rhodessa Jones—imagined and experienced the American West geographically and symbolically at different historical moments. Dissecting the varied ways they used migration to survive in the world from the viewpoint of theater and performance theory, Effinger-Crichlow reconceptualizes the migration histories of black women in nineteenth- and twentieth-century America. This interdisciplinary study expands the understanding of the African American struggle for unconstrained movement and full citizenship in the United States and will interest students and scholars of American and African American history, women and gender studies, theater, and performance theory.
Author : Kerry Acker
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781438124148
Discusses the life and work of the twentieth century American photographer, Dorothea Lange.
Author : Katherine Archibald
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124093589
An eye-opening first-hand account of life in a WWII shipyard from a woman's perspective In 1942, Katherine Archibald, a graduate student at Berkeley, left the halls of academe to spend two years working in a nearby Oakland shipyard. She arrived with a host of preconceptions about the American working class, race relations and the prospect for their improvement, and wartime unity. Her experience working in a shipyard where women were seen as intruders, where "Okies" and black migrants from the South were regarded with barely-disguised hatred, and where trade unions preferred protecting their turf to defending workers' rights, threw much of her liberal faith into doubt. Archibald's 1947 book about her experiences, Wartime Shipyard: A Study in Social Disunity, remains a classic account of life and labor on the home front. This new edition includes an introduction written by historians Eric Arnesen and Alex Lichtenstein, who explore Archibald's work in light of recent scholarship on women and African Americans in the wartime workplace.
Author : Delia Gaze
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 786 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Women artists
ISBN : 9781579583354
The Concise Dictionary of Women Artists provides an alternative history of Western art from the Middle Ages to the present day. In 200 entries it examines the lives, working conditions, and most of all, the work of a remarkable group of artists.
Author : The Emeryville Historical Society
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0738530069
Emeryville, one tough square mile wedged between Oakland and Berkeley with its back to the bay, has a gritty, colorful history and a bright future. Before the Gold Rush, its creek-fed grasslands served as a huge slaughtering ground for the Peralta family's hide and tallow operations. Later, railroad tracks crisscrossed a community formed on the fringe of Oakland to catch its cultural and industrial refuse. The stench from stockyards and slaughterhouses, the happy roar of a crowd at the Oakland Oaks Ball Park, acidic plumes from steel and petroleum manufacture, pomaded swells rubbing elbows with rowdies at the racetrack, and smoky gambling dens were all part of old Emeryville. Recently, an innovative, business-friendly city government brought about a striking economic transformation, making once-blighted Emeryville--now home to corporate giants like Pixar Animation Studios and IKEA--the envy of its neighbors.