Picturing a Nation: The Great Depression’s Finest Photographers Introduce America to Itself

This nonfiction volume uses 140 color and black-and-white photographs to examine the Great Depression through the United States Farm Security Administration’s visual record. Photographs by Gordon Parks, Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, and other noted photographers document everyday life in the United States during the 1930s. Alongside the images, the book includes profiles of photographers and source notes, placing their work within the history of the Depression and its photographic documentation.