Picturing Faith: Photography and the Great Depression - Hardcover

McDannell, Colleen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300104308 ISBN 13: 9780300104301

Verlag: Yale University Press, 2004

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Book by McDannell Dr Colleen

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"This is a unique and fascinating book. Picturing Faith will enliven our understanding of both American religion and the Great Depression. Colleen McDannell superbly integrates photography with history - rarely does a book cross disciplines so dramatically and beautifully." Jon Butler, Yale University "In Picturing Faith, Colleen McDannell continues her trail-blazing path in American religious history. She takes conventional wisdom about spiritual decline in the Depression era and turns it on its head. This is a very special book, and will be a touchstone for future scholarship." Gary Laderman, Emory University"

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In the midst of the Great Depression, the American government initiated one of the most ambitious national photographic projects ever undertaken. Such photographers as Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, and Gordon Parks, all then virtually unknown, were commissioned to chronicle in pictures the economic struggle and social dislocation of the Depression era. They explored every facet of rural life in an effort to document the troubles, as well as the spirit, of the nation. Fanning out across the country, these photographers captured a nation alive with religious faith - from Dust Bowl migrants singing hymns to orthodox Jews praying in rural Connecticut. In Picturing Faith, the preeminent historian of religion Colleen McDannell recounts the history of this extraordinary project, telling the stories of the men and women who participated in it and exploring these little-known images of America. Lavishly illustrated, Picturing Faith teases out the various and conflicting ways that these photographers portrayed American religion and enhances our understanding of how religion was practised during this critical period of American history.

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• Verlag: Yale University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0300104308
• ISBN 13: 9780300104301
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 416