Mrs. Ruland's U.S. History Class Project
Photographers During the New Deal
This page will provide links that will guide research for Photographers During the New Deal through reliable links on photographers as follows:
By Cecilia F., Michelle K., and Giuliana W.
Dorothea Lange
Dorothea Lange was born in 1895 and had polio at a very young age. After overcoming her illness, Dorothea Lange captured images of people's spirits that helped them overcome hardships. First, Dorothea Lange took pictures of Japanese immigrants in internment camps, but most of her work was focused on migrant farm workers during the Great Depression. Dorothea Lange died of cancer before the opening of her exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
Summary of Dorothea Lange's life and career.
This website gives a short biography of the life of Dorothea Lange. However, it mainly gives links to photographs she took with descriptions of them.
Jack Delano
Jack Delano was born in 1914 in Ukraine. He studied fine arts such as music, graphic design, and photography. When he returned to America from taking a trip to study in Europe, he took commercial photos but soon worked for the Farm Security Administration. During this period of time, Jack Delano showed how increasing war production affected workers and their towns. He died in 1999 in Puerto Rico.
Photography: Jack Delano
Very informative site including a biography and timeline.
Arthur Rothstein
Arthur Rothstein was born in New York in 1914. He was a photographer during the New Deal and end of the Great Depression and was part of a group of photographers who was sent out to the midwest to capture the feelings of the Dust Bowl. He later taught photography and worked for magazine companies.
This talks about his life in general.
Very good information on the life of Arthur Rothstein with a timeline.
Marrion Post
Marion Post (later Marion Post Wolcott) (June 7, 1910 - November 24, 1990) was a noted photographer who worked for the Farm Security Administration during the Great Depression documenting poverty and deprivation. She was born in New Jersey. Her parents split up and she was sent to boarding school, spending time at home with her mother in Greenwich Village when not at school. Here she met many artists and musicians and became interested in dance.
She trained as a teacher, and went to work in a small town in Massachusetts. Here she saw the reality of the Depression and the problems of the poor. When the school closed she went to Europe to study with her sister Helen. Helen was studying with Trude Fleischmann, a Viennese photographer. Marion showed Flieschmann some of her photographs and was told to stick to photography.
Russell Lee
Russell Lee was born in Ottawa , Illinois in 1903. He along with many others was sponsored by the federal government to photograph certain areas. Lee was part of the Farm Security Administration to photograph poor rural areas and the problems of child labor.
Spartacus Educational "Russell Lee"
General information on Russell Lee with links to other photographers of the time.
Some general information on his job at the FSA
Some more information on his jobs in the federal government.
Esther Bubley
Esther Bubley was born in 1921 at Philips, Wisconsin. After being a free-lance photographer for Vogue, she was hired in 1940 by Roy Styker to work for the Farm Security Administration. Esther Bubley photographed the bus system in the Deep South and later participated in the Standard Oil Project. Esther Bubley died in 1998.
Good biography about Esther Bubley. It is short and to the point.
Exhibition to Feature Photographs by Esther Bubley
Myra Albert Wiggins
Myra Albert Wiggins is perhaps the earliest internationally known artist from the Northwest. She studied painting under some of the finest American artists of the day including John H. Twachtman (1853-1902) and William Merrit Chase (1849-1916), who encouraged her talent with the new medium. She immortalized Chase in a famous 1891 photograph of the artist teaching at the League, surrounded by his female students. Northwest mountains as well as New York City 's then bucolic Central Park .
Spartacus: Myra Albert Wiggins
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