Black Image in the New Deal The Politics of Fsa Photography

This study employs a variety of methodological tools to explore the political and administrative forces that worked against documentary coverage of particularly sensitive racial issues. Moreover, Natanson shows that those who drew on the FSA photo files for newspapers, magazines, books, and exhibitions often entirely omitted images of black people and their environment or used devices such as cropping and captioning to diminish the true range of the FSA photographer's vision.Natanson, Nicholas is the author of 'Black Image in the New Deal The Politics of Fsa Photography' with ISBN 9780870497247 and ISBN 0870497243.