Following the publication in September 2008 of the first three books featuring the Library of Congress' internationally renowned collection of Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information photographs, the series will continue with images chosen from the works of John Vachon, Esther Bubley and Jack Delano. Providing a unique view of American life during the Great Depression and Second World War, each Fields of Vision volume includes an introduction to the life of the photographer and 50 evocative images selcted from their work. Transporting the viewer to American homes, farms, and streets of the 1930s and 1940s, they offer a glimpse of a new narrative and intimate style that defined America. ?[W]e are today making a conscious effort to preserve in permanent media the fact and appearance of the 20th century? to ?leave for the future a very living document of our age, of what people today look like, of what they do and build.? John Vachon REVIEW ?The greatness of Vachon's portrait of America is that it's not a happy-all-the-time Bedford Falls nor a ghastly Pottersville, neither propagandistically pro- nor anti-American, but achieves some truer, more complicated, liminal version of the nation at midcentury? Kurt Andersen AUTHOR: Kurt Andersen is a novelist and journalist and is the author of the novels Heyday and Turn of the Century ILLUSTRATIONS 55 colour illustrations *
