 
			 
				
Hardcover: 576 pages
Publisher: TASCHEN; Mul edition (23 Jun. 2016)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 3836537117
ISBN-13: 978-3836537117
Product Dimensions: 15 x 4.3 x 20.1 cm
Another country: Introducing America to AmericansAmid the ravages of the Great Depression, the United States Farm Security Administration (FSA) was first founded in 1935 to address the country s rural poverty. Its efforts focused on improving the lives of sharecroppers, tenants, and very poor landowning farmers, with resettlement and collectivization programs, as well as modernized farming methods. In a parallel documentation program, the FSA hired a number of photographers and writers to record the lives of the rural poor and introduce America to Americans. This book records the full reach of the FSA program from 1935 to 1943, honoring its vigor and commitment across subjects, states, and stylistic preferences. The photographs are arranged into four broad regional sections but otherwise allowed to speak for themselves to provide individual impressions as much as they cumulatively build an indelible survey of a nation. Through color and black-and-white images, we meet convicts, cotton workers, kids on the street, and relocated workers on the road. We see subjects victim to the elements of nature and the timeless rituals of human life, as much as to the vagaries of the global economic market. We meet Dorothea Lange s iconic Migrant Mother, weather-beaten and worn, with two children leaning on her shoulders.What unites all of the pictures is a commitment to the individuality and dignity of each subject, as much as to the witness they bear to this particular period of the American past and to universal cycles of growing, playing, eating, aging, ailing, and dying. Through the lenses of such perceptive, sensitive photographers as Dorothea Lange, Jack Delano, Russell Lee, Marion Post Wolcott, Walker Evans, and Ben Shahn, subjects are entrenched in the hardships of their historical lot, caught in the loop of humanity, and yet face the viewer with what is utterly their own: a unique, irreplaceable, often unforgettable presence.About the series: Bibliotheca Universalis Compact cultural companions celebrating the eclectic TASCHEN universe at an unbeatable, democratic price!Since we started our work as cultural archaeologists in 1980, the name TASCHEN has become synonymous with accessible, open-minded publishing. Bibliotheca Universalis brings together nearly 100 of our all-time favorite titles in a neat new format so you can curate your own affordable library of art, anthropology, and aphrodisia.Bookworm s delight never bore, always excite!Text in English, French, and German"
Peter Walther has edited various publications on literary, photographic, and contemporary historical themes, including books on Goethe, Fontane, Thomas Mann, and writers in the First World War, as well as several illustrated books with historical color photographs. He has also curated several exhibitions. He is particularly interested in early color photography techniques.
最让我感到震撼的是,这本书展现了摄影作为一种社会干预工具的强大潜力。那些照片不仅仅是对现实的记录,它们本身就是“新政”宣传机器中至关重要的一环,是政策推行和民众情绪引导的有力武器。我花了大量时间去研究那些具有明显指向性的作品,比如描绘基础设施建设完成后的场景,那种光辉和进步感简直要溢出纸面。然而,这本书的妙处在于,它没有回避那些矛盾的侧面。在描绘希望的同时,它也毫不留情地展示了反对者和被遗忘者的存在。这种平衡感,使得整本书的史料价值倍增,它让你理解,即便是带有强烈政治倾向的摄影项目,也依然能诞生出永恒的艺术杰作。摄影师们在完成任务的同时,似乎也在无意中为后世留下了最真实、最具有情感共鸣的视觉证据。
评分阅读体验上,这本书的纸张和印刷质量绝对是顶级水准,这对于摄影集来说至关重要。很多老照片的颗粒感和层次感,如果印刷不好,很容易变成一团模糊的灰色,但在这本书里,即便是最暗的阴影部分,你依然能辨识出纹理和细节。这种对细节的执着,使得那些关于尘土、粗布衣料和木头纹理的触感,几乎可以穿透纸面传递过来。我尤其喜欢其中几组关于迁徙和定居的照片,它们似乎在讲述一个关于“寻找土地”的宏大主题,从干旱的平原到新建立的社区,那种环境的巨大变化带来的心理冲击,通过影像得到了完美的放大。每翻过一页,都像是在不同的美国地理和心灵景观中进行一次穿越,时间感和空间感被极大地拉伸和重塑。
评分坦白讲,我原本以为这会是一本比较枯燥的档案汇编,毕竟主题是如此严肃和明确。但出乎意料的是,这本书的编排逻辑非常流畅,完全没有那种死板的学术味道。它更像是一场精心策划的巡回展览,引导着读者的视线在不同主题之间游走——从初期的绝望景象到后来“公民保护队”成员充满希望的集体照,这种叙事上的起承转合做得非常高明。我注意到,有些照片的选取角度非常刁钻,它们避开了那些被过度曝光的“宣传照”,转而聚焦于那些普通人在日常生活中不经意的瞬间,比如一个孩子在破旧的楼梯口张望,或者一个母亲在简陋厨房里的身影。这些未加修饰的瞬间,反而更有力量,它们让我感觉自己不是在“看”历史,而是在“参与”历史。书后附带的那些简短的说明文字,克制而精准,没有过度解读,把解释的权力留给了照片本身和读者的想象力,这种留白的处理,着实体现了编辑的高水准。
评分这本书带来的不仅仅是视觉的享受,更是一种对时代精神的深刻反思。它强迫你跳出当代的语境,去思考在极端压力下,一个国家是如何通过自上而下的干预来重塑其社会结构和国民信心的。那些被聚焦的个体,他们的眼神里有对政府救助的感激,但更多的是一种被时间定格的无奈。我常常会想,如果这些摄影师没有携带他们的镜头,今天的历史记录会不会少掉如此深刻的一笔?这部作品集成功地建立了一座桥梁,连接了政策制定者的意图与底层人民的真实生活,让冰冷的法规有了温度,让宏大的“新政”口号,落在了真实的泥土和人民的肩膀上。这是一次对美国精神内核的深度挖掘,它探讨了在危机中,人们如何重新定义“家”和“未来”的概念。
评分这本书拿到手时,我心中的期待值简直要爆表了。封面那种沉郁的黑白影调,一下子就把人拽回了那个特殊年代的空气里。我一直对美国大萧条时期的社会面貌抱有强烈的好奇心,总觉得那些静默的黑白照片里藏着比文字更直白、更触及灵魂的东西。翻开内页,首先吸引我的是那些纪实性的特写镜头,那些饱经风霜的面孔,眼里的疲惫和坚韧交织在一起,简直是无声的史诗。我尤其欣赏摄影师们捕捉光影的方式,那种戏剧性的明暗对比,不仅突出了人物的艰辛,更烘托出时代氛围的压抑与转机并存的复杂情感。每一张照片的构图都经过深思熟虑,绝非随手拍来,它们像一个个精心设计的舞台,将“新政”的宏大叙事,通过无数个微观的、个体的瞬间给具象化了。特别是那些关于田间劳作和城市贫民窟的对比,那种强烈的视觉冲击力,让人不得不停下来,细细品味每一个细节。这不仅仅是一本相册,它更像是一部用光线和阴影写成的历史教科书,每一页都散发着那个特定历史时期特有的质感。
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