Join educator Gary Saretsky\, for his lect ure on "12 Million Black Voices\," a 1941 photodocumentary book authored b y Richard Wright. Photos were originally taken by the Farm Security Admini stration. This event is made possible by the Friends of the Plumsted Libra ry. Please Register.
\n12 Million Black Voices\, first published in 1941\, combines best-selling author Richard Wright's poetic history of Afr ican Americans with 90 photographs made for a federal agency\, the Farm Se curity Administration (FSA)\, during the Great Depression. The book was ed ited by Edwin Rosskam\, an FSA editor and photographer who did a series of documentary photography books about American life. The photographs are by Walker Evans\, Dorothea Lange\, Arthur Rothstein\, Russell Lee\, Ben Shah n\, and others who have become renowned. The images depict both rural pove rty and urban life in northern ghettos.
\nGary D. Saretzky\, archivi st\, educator\, and photographer\, worked as an archivist for more than fi fty years at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin\, Educational Testi ng Service\, and the Monmouth County Archives. Saretzky taught the history of photography at Mercer County Community College\, 1977-2012\, and serve d as coordinator of the Public History Internship Program for the Rutgers University History Department\, 1994-2016. He has published more than 100 articles and reviews on the history of photography\, photographic conserva tion\, and other topics.
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