Large Format Photos Document Black Communities in the 1980s Deep South
Baldwin Lee toured the Deep South throughout the 1980s where he captured Black Americans on a 4x5 large format camera.
Great Reads in Photography: February 21, 2021
Every Sunday, we bring together a collection of easy-reading articles from analytical to how-to to photo-features in no particular order that did not make our regular daily coverage. Enjoy!
Great Reads in Photography: December 27, 2020
Every Sunday, we bring together a collection of easy reading articles from analytical to how-to to photo-features in no particular order that did not make our regular daily coverage. Enjoy!
Walker Evans’ Reflections on His Great Depression Photos
The great American photographer Walker Evans is best known for his stark photos that document the years of the Great Depression in the US. In the 4.5-minute video above, produced many years afterwards, Evans looks back on his photography and offers a glimpse into his mindset at the time he shot it.
Photos of Photographers in the Great Depression
During the Great Depression, the US government launched the largest photography project it ever sponsored by sending photographers across the country to document America. Of the 170,000 photos captured by photographers such as Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, and Arthur Rothstein, some of them showed other photographers at work with their cameras.
We've gathered together a collection of photos showing photographers during the Great Depression (and the few years following it) between 1935 and 1946.
The Print Quality Across Various Editions of “American Photographs”
Walker Evans' famous photo book "American Photographs" was first published in 1938. Since then, the book has been released in new editions every 25 years or so. Although the photos contained within its covers have remained the same, the processes and technologies used to print the photos have evolved over time, causing each edition to be every so slightly different from the others.
The Largest Photography Project Ever Sponsored by the United States
You probably know of the iconic photograph titled Migrant Mother, but do you …
One Thousand Historic Photos Unveiled by the New York Public Library
It seems like every few weeks another long-lost photo archive is discovered and digitized, and the newest of these archives is a set of one thousand historical images taken as part of a Farm Security Administration project in the early 20th century. The photos -- some of which were taken by the likes of Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans and Russell Lee -- were originally put together to combat poverty, but have instead become an important glimpse into what was then simply everyday American life.