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- The Washington Post
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- January 1, 1989
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Documenting America, 1935-1943
, edited by Carl Fleischhauer and Beverly W. Brannan (University
of California Press, $24.95; hardcover, $60). Walker Evans,
Dorothea Lange, Russell Lee-these are legendary names in the annals
of American photography, in great part because of the images they
shot in the 1930s and 1940s for the Farm Security Administration and,
later, the Office of War Information. Their work, along with that of
lesser-known colleagues, is the subject of an exhibition at the
Library of Congress, to which this hefty volume (360 pages, 250
photographs) is the catalogue. The photographs of the rural South
and of migrant workers are so famous as to defy description; ...