Photography and Social Reform
Resource: Review "Documenting the Face of America: Roy Stryker and the FSA/OWI Photographers," and Chapter "A New Deal for the Arts: the Great Depression" of Oxford History of Art: Twentieth-Century American Art.
Write a 200- to 350-word summary responding to the following:
How was photography used as an instrument for social reform? What photograph do you think makes the most powerful social commentary? Why?
Link to "Documenting the Face of America: Roy Stryker and the FSA/OWI Potographers"
https://digital.films.com/PortalViewVideo.aspx?xtid=40086
(BOOK CITATION)
Doss, Erika. Oxford History of Art : Twentieth-Century American Art. Cary, NC, USA: OUP Oxford, 2002. ProQuest ebrary.
Documenting the Face of America: Roy Stryker and the FSA/OWI Photographers. Films On Demand. Films Media Group, 2008. https://digital.films.com/PortalPlaylists.aspx?aid=7967&xtid=40086.