Marion Post Wolcott : a photographic journey / F. Jack Hurley ; foreword by Robert Coles.

Main entry:

Hurley, F. Jack (Forrest Jack)

Title & Author:

Marion Post Wolcott : a photographic journey / F. Jack Hurley ; foreword by Robert Coles.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

Description:

xii, 228 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
The early years -- A time of testing -- Professional government photographer -- Maturing and changing -- Wife, mother, and sometimes photographer -- Plates.

Summary:

Among the distinguished and much-praised group of photographers who worked for the Farm Security Administration during the depression, Marion Post Wolcott has been, until recently, relatively unknown. In this definitive biography, F. Jack Hurley shows her to be a photographer of great skill, sensitivity, vision, and humanity. He also demonstrates that her contribution to the great documentary file assembled at the FSA under the direction of Roy Stryker is unique. In addition to the now-classic images of sharecroppers and tenant farmer families, made by all the photographers, Marion Post Wolcott did studies of the affluent--relaxing on Florida beaches, shopping in resort communities, attending horse races and charity balls. Often on her own initiative, and in between the massive assignments she got from Washington, Marion Post Wolcott made innumerable photographs of the contrasts, not just the dark side, of the depression, and she did it with wit and compassion. Using the considerable correspondence between Marion Post Wolcott and Roy Stryker, Hurley presents a revealing glimpse of what is was like--the rewards and numerous travails--to be a young woman traveling alone through the backcountry and in some of the roughest of this country's rural sections, as well as in cities like Miami and Memphis. --jacket.

ISBN:

0826311148
9780826311146
0826311156 (pbk.)
9780826311153 (pbk.)

Subject:

Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910-1990.
Wolcott, Marion Post.
Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910-
Wolcott, Marion Post 1910-1990
Photographers United States Biography.
Documentary photography United States.
Photographes États-Unis Biographies.
Photographie documentaire États-Unis.
Documentary photography
Photographers
Social conditions
Biografie
United States Social conditions Pictorial works.
États-Unis Conditions sociales Ouvrages illustrés.
United States

Form/genre:

Illustrated works.
Biography.
illustrated books.
Biographies
Pictorial works
Ouvrages illustrés.

Added entries:

Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910-1990.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 46640
Call No.: TR140.W849 (ID:89-B5935)
Status: Available

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