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Recommended Texts:

The FSA-OWI Collection -- Selected Bibliography and Related Web Sites

Documentary Expression and Thirties America, Oxford University Press

Other More Recently Published Books:
Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits, WW Norton (2009)

FSA: The American Vision, by Gilles Mora and Beverly W. Brannan, "Harry N. Abrams, Inc." (2006)

Walker Evans: Photographer of America, By Thomas Nau, Roaring Book Press (2007)

Walker Evans: The Hungry Eye, Gilles Mora and John T. Hill, Thames & Hudson Ltd (Oct 2004)

Daring to Look: Dorothea Lange's Photographs and Reports from the Field, Anne Whiston Spirn,  University of Chicago Press (2008) (review)

Dorothea Lange - Her Approach to the Documentary Style During FDR's New Deal, by Jan Hillnhntter, Vdm Verlag Dr Mueller E K (2008)

Impounded: Dorothea Lange and the Censored Images of Japanese American Internment, by Dorothea Lange, Linda Gordon, and Gary Y. Okihiro, W.W. Norton (2008)

Dorothea Lange, Phaidon Press (2001)

Restless Spirit, The Life and Work of Dorothea Lange, By Elizabeth Partridge, Puffin Books (1998)

Bound for Glory: America in Color 1939-43 (Harry N. Abrams, 2004)

Long Time Coming: A Photographic Portrait of America, 1935-1943 (W. W. Norton & Company, 2002)

The Likes of Us: Photography and the Farm Security Administration (David R Godine, 2008)

Gordon Parks: Bare Witness, by Maren Stange and Gordon Parks, Skira, (Mar 2007)

Gordon Parks: No Excuses, by Ann Parr, Gordon Parks, Pelican Pub (July 2006)

The Photographs of Russell Lee (Fields of Vision) by Amy Pastan, D Giles Ltd. (Sept. 2008)

Russell Lee Photographs: Images from the Russell Lee Photograph Collection at the Center for American History (Focus on American History),
by John Szarkowski, University of Texas Press (May 2007)

The Photographs of Marion Post Wolcott (Fields of Vision) by Amy Pastan, D Giles Ltd (Sept 2008)

Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: The American Classic, in Words and Photographs, of Three Tenant Families in the Deep South by James Agee & Walker Evans, Mariner Books (2001)