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Exposition: the bitter years (U.S.A. 1935-1941)

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Monograph

Structure type:
Monograph
Title:
Exposition: the bitter years (U.S.A. 1935-1941)
Subtitle:
ensemble de photographies composé par Edward Steichen
Author:
Thill, Gérard
Publication year:
1968
Publisher:
Musée d'histoire et d'art
Place of publication:
Luxembourg
Measurements:
4 f.
Description:
Photographie

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Title:
[Introduction]

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  • Exposition: the bitter years (U.S.A. 1935-1941)
  • [Introduction]
  • Liste des photographies

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MUSEE D'HISTOIRE ET D'ART 
DU 3 AU 28 AVRIL 1968. 
LUXEMBOURG 
Exposition: THE BITTER YEARS (U.S.A. 1935-1941) 
Ensemble de photographies composé par 
EDWARD STEICHEN 
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MUSÉE 
D'HISTOIRE 
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On sait que la débâcle de Wall Street en 1929 et dans la suite la 
Grande Dépression, de concert avec les mauvaises récoltes causées 
par des sécheresses et des inondations excessives ainsi que par deg 
phénoménes d'érosion, avaient conduit l'Amérique, et particuliére- 
ment sa population rurale, dans la crise la plus grave de son 
histoire. "I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ills 
nourished", dit le président Franklin Delano Roosevelt dans son 
adresse inaugurale de 1927. Deux ans auparavant, il avait créé dans 
le cadre du Ministère de l'Agriculture la "Resettlement 
Administration", qui devait devenir la fameuse "Farm Security 
Administration" (F.S.A.). A la tête de la "Division of Information" 
se trouva Roy E. Stryker, qui dirigea une équipe de photographes, 
tels que Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, Arthur Rothstein, Ben Shahn 
et d'autres, ayant la charge d'enregistrer les évènements 
ineroyables de l'époque, afin d'en informer les nantis d'alors et 
de toujours. Fendant des années ce "tean", bien préparé et compré- 
hensif, traversa les Etats-Unis dans tous les sens, contactant de 
pauvres héres, des métayers ruinés, des ouvriers agricoles affamés, 
des chômeurs vagabonds, bref, tous les dépossédés et tous les 
déracinés. Leur moisson documentaire comportait 270.000 négatifs. 
En 1938, à l'Exposition Internationale de Photographie à New York, 
une petite sélection en fut montrée au public ahuri. Au sujet de 
ce "show", Edward Steichen écrivit dans "Camera 1939": "Have a 106% 
into the faces of the men and women in these pages. Listen to the 
story they tell and they will leave with you a feeling of a living 
experience you won't forget; and the babies here, and the children; 
weird, hungry, dirty, lovable, heart-breaking images; and then ther 
are the fierce stories of strong, gaunt men and women in time of 
flood and drought....It is not the individual photographers that 
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make these pictures so important, but it is the job as a whole as 
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it has been produced by the photographers as a group that makes it 
such a unique and outstanding achievement."
	        

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