Picturing America in the 1930s: Reading Farm Security Administration Photographs *Please note: This workshop is currently full. To join a waiting list or for more information please contact Caryn Koplik (919) 406-0111, or ckoplik@nationalhumanitiescenter.org.

Date: Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2010 Time: 7:00 p.m.-8:30 p.m. (EST) Registration Deadline: Feb. 16, 2010

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The Farm Security Administration (FSA) was a New Deal agency founded to combat rural poverty. While it spent millions of dollars between 1935 and 1946 to improve the lives of poor farmers, it is remembered today for its documentary photography program. The photographs of rural America taken by FSA photographers in the 1930s have assumed iconic status and have come to define the look of the Great Depression. What can they teach about America in the 1930s? What can they tell us about the truth of documentary photography? How can we read them as images? Leader: Anthony W. Lee, Associate Professor of Art, Mount Holyoke College