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Gen Ms 06 Ben Shahn Photographs Finding Aid, Siobain C. Monahan
Gen Ms 06 Ben Shahn Photographs Finding Aid, Siobain C. Monahan
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Description:
Ben Shahn was an artist who used photographs primarily as a starting point for paintings. He was employed in the New Deal Resettlement (later Farm Security) Administration as an artist, but also assisted with the photographic projects. The collection consists of reproductions from the Library of Congress, Farm Security Administration, Office of War Information Photograph Collection, used in a 1976 exhibition at the University Art Gallery.
Size of Collection:
4.5 ft.
Gen Ms 05 Walker Evans Photographs Finding Aid, Siobain C. Monahan
Gen Ms 05 Walker Evans Photographs Finding Aid, Siobain C. Monahan
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Description:
Walker Evans was a self-taught photographer who pointed a new direction in American documentary photography in the 1930s. In the mid-1930s, he worked for President Roosevelt’s New Deal Resettlement (later Farm Security) Administration, taking photographs intended to alert America’s increasingly urban society to the plight of the rural poor during the Great Depression. The collection consists of reproductions from the Library of Congress, Farm Security Administration, Office of War Information Photograph Collection, used in a 1978 exhibition at the University Art Gallery.
Size of Collection:
4.5 ft.