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.
這本書帶來的不僅僅是視覺的享受,更是一種對時代精神的深刻反思。它強迫你跳齣當代的語境,去思考在極端壓力下,一個國傢是如何通過自上而下的乾預來重塑其社會結構和國民信心的。那些被聚焦的個體,他們的眼神裏有對政府救助的感激,但更多的是一種被時間定格的無奈。我常常會想,如果這些攝影師沒有攜帶他們的鏡頭,今天的曆史記錄會不會少掉如此深刻的一筆?這部作品集成功地建立瞭一座橋梁,連接瞭政策製定者的意圖與底層人民的真實生活,讓冰冷的法規有瞭溫度,讓宏大的“新政”口號,落在瞭真實的泥土和人民的肩膀上。這是一次對美國精神內核的深度挖掘,它探討瞭在危機中,人們如何重新定義“傢”和“未來”的概念。
評分坦白講,我原本以為這會是一本比較枯燥的檔案匯編,畢竟主題是如此嚴肅和明確。但齣乎意料的是,這本書的編排邏輯非常流暢,完全沒有那種死闆的學術味道。它更像是一場精心策劃的巡迴展覽,引導著讀者的視綫在不同主題之間遊走——從初期的絕望景象到後來“公民保護隊”成員充滿希望的集體照,這種敘事上的起承轉閤做得非常高明。我注意到,有些照片的選取角度非常刁鑽,它們避開瞭那些被過度曝光的“宣傳照”,轉而聚焦於那些普通人在日常生活中不經意的瞬間,比如一個孩子在破舊的樓梯口張望,或者一個母親在簡陋廚房裏的身影。這些未加修飾的瞬間,反而更有力量,它們讓我感覺自己不是在“看”曆史,而是在“參與”曆史。書後附帶的那些簡短的說明文字,剋製而精準,沒有過度解讀,把解釋的權力留給瞭照片本身和讀者的想象力,這種留白的處理,著實體現瞭編輯的高水準。
評分這本書拿到手時,我心中的期待值簡直要爆錶瞭。封麵那種沉鬱的黑白影調,一下子就把人拽迴瞭那個特殊年代的空氣裏。我一直對美國大蕭條時期的社會麵貌抱有強烈的好奇心,總覺得那些靜默的黑白照片裏藏著比文字更直白、更觸及靈魂的東西。翻開內頁,首先吸引我的是那些紀實性的特寫鏡頭,那些飽經風霜的麵孔,眼裏的疲憊和堅韌交織在一起,簡直是無聲的史詩。我尤其欣賞攝影師們捕捉光影的方式,那種戲劇性的明暗對比,不僅突齣瞭人物的艱辛,更烘托齣時代氛圍的壓抑與轉機並存的復雜情感。每一張照片的構圖都經過深思熟慮,絕非隨手拍來,它們像一個個精心設計的舞颱,將“新政”的宏大敘事,通過無數個微觀的、個體的瞬間給具象化瞭。特彆是那些關於田間勞作和城市貧民窟的對比,那種強烈的視覺衝擊力,讓人不得不停下來,細細品味每一個細節。這不僅僅是一本相冊,它更像是一部用光綫和陰影寫成的曆史教科書,每一頁都散發著那個特定曆史時期特有的質感。
評分最讓我感到震撼的是,這本書展現瞭攝影作為一種社會乾預工具的強大潛力。那些照片不僅僅是對現實的記錄,它們本身就是“新政”宣傳機器中至關重要的一環,是政策推行和民眾情緒引導的有力武器。我花瞭大量時間去研究那些具有明顯指嚮性的作品,比如描繪基礎設施建設完成後的場景,那種光輝和進步感簡直要溢齣紙麵。然而,這本書的妙處在於,它沒有迴避那些矛盾的側麵。在描繪希望的同時,它也毫不留情地展示瞭反對者和被遺忘者的存在。這種平衡感,使得整本書的史料價值倍增,它讓你理解,即便是帶有強烈政治傾嚮的攝影項目,也依然能誕生齣永恒的藝術傑作。攝影師們在完成任務的同時,似乎也在無意中為後世留下瞭最真實、最具有情感共鳴的視覺證據。
評分閱讀體驗上,這本書的紙張和印刷質量絕對是頂級水準,這對於攝影集來說至關重要。很多老照片的顆粒感和層次感,如果印刷不好,很容易變成一團模糊的灰色,但在這本書裏,即便是最暗的陰影部分,你依然能辨識齣紋理和細節。這種對細節的執著,使得那些關於塵土、粗布衣料和木頭紋理的觸感,幾乎可以穿透紙麵傳遞過來。我尤其喜歡其中幾組關於遷徙和定居的照片,它們似乎在講述一個關於“尋找土地”的宏大主題,從乾旱的平原到新建立的社區,那種環境的巨大變化帶來的心理衝擊,通過影像得到瞭完美的放大。每翻過一頁,都像是在不同的美國地理和心靈景觀中進行一次穿越,時間感和空間感被極大地拉伸和重塑。
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