{"product_id":"photographing-farmworkers-in-california-9780804740920","title":"Photographing Farmworkers in California","description":"\u003cp\u003eAs exploited and colonized people  California farmworkers have attracted such massive  overwhelming photographic scrutiny that today their story cannot be told  studied  or understood without engaging the photographic dimension. Although the work of Dorothea Lange and other photographers from the 1930s often comes to mind  virtually every photographer of consequence at some time  for some reason  photographed in the fields of the Golden State. This includes such unlikely twentieth-century artists as fashion photographer Richard Avedon and commercial photographer Max Yavno  along with the nineteenth-century masters Carleton E. Watkins and Eadweard Muybridge. Their work  however  does not unfold along neat  predictable lines. While it has both obscured the place of field hands in modern agriculture and made a case against the farm labor system as an instrument of poverty and oppression  the best of these photographs goes far beyond advertising and expos  cutting through layers of ignorance and indifference and raising difficult moral questions that force us to reflect on the extent to which  as a society  we require the subservience of an entire class of people. This volume presents 282 of these important photographs.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45647003451445,"sku":"ByrdShop_0804740925","price":86.92,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780804740920.jpg?v=1781685140","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/photographing-farmworkers-in-california-9780804740920","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}