Picturing Poverty

Download or read book Picturing Poverty written by Cara A. Finnegan and published by Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press. This book was released on 2003-03-17 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Working for the government's Farm Security Administration in the 1930s, photographers set out across the country to capture the human face of the Depression. Picturing Poverty examines how popular magazines used these images to construct complex and often contradictory messages about poverty. By striving to understand the original context of the photographs, Finnegan shines new light on the meanings of poverty, the Depression, and the various roles of the media.