There was a lot of photography taken during the Great Depression and many of these iconic images have lasted as continuing representations of Amercan Culture and have become representative of how we understand the impact of the Great Depression today. These images have become inseperable from a prevalent photographic language that attempts to reveal the struggles of the working class. Several of these photogaphers were commissioned by the Farm Security Administration to document the plight of farmers in western America during these hard years. These photographs were distributed through the FSA to media sources to help create support for the New Deal. Arthur Rothstein later said, "It was our job to document the problems of the Depression so that we could justify the New Deal legislation that was designed to alleviate them."
Walker Evans
Dorothea Lange
Arthur Rothstein
Margaret Bourke-White
Story follows three white sharecropper familes through their lives and struggles during the "Dust Bowl" in the South. Evans photo of three men from book, Frank Tengle, Bud Fields, and Floyd Burroughs.
