The bitter years : Edward Steichen and the Farm Security Administration Photographs / edited by FrancÌoise Poos [essays by Jean Back...et al.] - New York: Distributed Art Publishers, 2012. - 288 p. : ill. ; 32 cm.

"The Bitter Years" was a seminal exhibition curated by Edward Steichen in 1962 at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. The show featured 208 images by photographers who worked under the aegis of the U.S. Farm Security Administration (FSA) in 1935-41, as part of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal... No proper catalogue was produced of the exhibition in 1962 so this book provides a unique opportunity to see all the photographs in a structure and sequence that reflected those devised by Steichen for the original show..." (from book jacket)

Contains bibliographical references (p.284) and index.

9781935202868 1935202863


Steichen, Edward, 1879-1973.


United States. Farm Security Administration.
Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)


Great Depression and the New Deal--Exhibitions.


Photography--Exhibitions.--20th century