documentary photography

Presents over four hundred photographs taken between 1935 and 1943 by photographers employed by the Farm Security Administration, featuring images made in large cities, as well as small towns and villages throughout the U.S. and Puerto Rico, and includes an essay that places the pictures in context.

Explores the extent of child labor in the United States in the nineteenth century and reveals how the photography of Lewis Hine and others helped illuminate children's sordid working conditions and bring about the establishment of child labor laws.

An autobiography of a man whose documentary photographs in American magazines helped to shape public opinion on such issues as the civil rights movement and the space race.

Academy Award-winning director Errol Morris examines the craft of photography and how a viewer's observation of a photograph is influenced by his or her beliefs.

Presents photographs from the archives of "National Geographic" magazine, capturing unique moments in the history of the world from 1890 into the twenty-first century.

A collection of over 150 photographs of women in various phases of labor and industry, taken by socio-documentary photographer Lewis W. Hine in the years between 1907 and 1938.

A collection of historic photographs that capture the devastation that plagued the Dust Bowl and the courage and enduring spirit of the people who tried to save their homes and livelihood during the era.

Collection of photographs that document the 1930s in the United States including pictures by Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, Carl Mydans, Marion Post Wolcott, Ben Shahn, George Alexander Grant, Arthur Rostein, John Vachon, and other photographers.

Profiles eight men and women whose artwork serves as visual documentation of critical events and cultural eras in American history during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.