Gordon TalleyBA, Colgate University, Philosophy
MFA, Yale School of Drama, Directing
[Pre-retirement] Principal, R. Gordon Talley Philanthropic Communication
Coordinator, Ad Hoc Great Culture Group, Cambridge, MA
One-class Course
10:30 – 12:00
March 3
From the depths of the Depression through the early years of WWII, the Farm Security Administration traveled the nation to compile the largest photographic record ever undertaken. Its images — “Migrant Woman,” “Dust Storm,” “American Gothic” and others — are imbedded in our national consciousness, and its photographers [, many of them household names,] set the path of documentary photography for decades after.
We will look at the project’s intent, scope and controversies as well as exploring in depth photos by
• Dorothea Lange
• Walker Evans
• Arthur Rothstein
• Marion Post Wolcott
• Russell Lee
• Jack Delano
• Gordon Parks and others
A government project, the photographs are freely available online through the Library of Congress.