{"product_id":"the-bitter-years-edward-steichen-and-the-farm-security-administration-photographs","title":"The Bitter Years: Edward Steichen and the Farm Security Administration Photographs","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Bitter Years was the title of a seminal exhibition held in 1962 at The Museum of Modern Art  New York  curated by Edward Steichen  and 2012 marks its fiftieth anniversary. The show featured 209 images by photographers who worked under the aegis of the U.S. Farm Security Administration (FSA) in 193541  as part of Roosevelts New Deal. The FSA  set up to combat rural poverty during the Great Depression  included an ambitious photography project that launched many photographic careers  most notably those of Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange. The exhibition featured their work as well as that of ten other FSA photographers  including Ben Shahn  Carl Mydans and Arthur Rothstein. Their images are among the most remarkable in documentary photography--testimonies of a people in crisis  hit by the full force of economic turmoil and the effects of drought and dust storms. This volume includes all the photographs in the original show  in a structure and sequence that reflect those devised by Steichen for the exhibition. The Bitter Years was the last exhibition curated by Steichen as Director of the Department of Photography at MoMA  in which role he had won international acclaim for his 1955 The Family of Man exhibition. Essays by Jean Back  Gabriel Bauret  Ariane Pollet  Miles Orvell and Antoinette Lorang discuss the FSA  its place in the history of twentieth-century photography and the continuing role of its archive  and Steichen and the origins  impact and legacy of the exhibition. The Bitter Years celebrates some of the most iconic photographs of the twentieth century  and--since no proper catalogue was produced at the time--provides a whole new insight into Steichens impact on the history of documentary photography.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44946050023477,"sku":"ByrdShop_1935202863","price":92.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781935202868_93fcc340-6249-405b-aa77-4be47e597c3d.jpg?v=1770155599","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-bitter-years-edward-steichen-and-the-farm-security-administration-photographs","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}