Accompanies an exhibition of the same name held at the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, Oct. 4-Dec. 17, 2011; Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, Mar. 1-June 3, 2012; and Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio, Jan. 26-Apr. 7, 2013. "Authors: Jana Blankenship, Claire Fitzsimmons, Jens Hoffmann, and Blake Stimson"--Colophon. "A conversation between Roy Stryker and Richard Doud" ([8] p.) inserted. Includes bibliographical references.
Summary:
"12 contemporary photographers were commissioned to travel the United States and document its land and people. Selections from the bodies of work they created were presented at the Wattis Institute alongside a number of photographs from the Farm Security Administration, whose photographers had, some 80 years earlier, received similar instructions to travel the country and document the America they saw"--P. 11.
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