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The Farm Security Administration's ambitious program, inaugurated in 1935, to document American life in photographs produced a file of nearly a hundred and fifty thousand negatives. Hundreds have since become iconic, almost to the point of cliché: portraits of rural poverty, migrant workers, and mining towns by Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, and Ben Shahn. Here, in a collection all the more impressive for its understated presentation, Lesy examines the conception and evolution of the file under the F.S.A. administrator, Roy Stryker, and spotlights some four hundred pictures, many previously unpublished, from the program's eight-year existence. These depictions of ordinary life—social gatherings, urban streetscapes, and small-town rituals—succeed, by their range and depth, in restoring a sense of the extraordinary to an enterprise now frequently taken for granted. Copyright © 2005 The New Yorker

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A beautiful book...best looked at not just once and slowly,but several times over. -- Killing the Buddha.com, 31 January 2003All the more impressive for its understated presentation...extraordinary. -- The New Yorker, 17 March 2003Beyond the lush and entrancing photographs, there is the history one reads between the lines of captions. -- Chicago Tribune, Beth Kephart, 23 February 2003Blunt,impeccably thorough...articulate...a double edged hacksaw. -- Laura Anne Brooks, Pulp, 20 February 2003Don't miss at least looking at...Long Time Coming. -- Our Town, 23 January 2003Here is an America long gone but well worth remembering. -- Smithsonian Magazine, Owen Edwards, January 2003It's great to see this smart blend of photographs neatly arranged in this terrific volume. -- Picture Magazine, January/February 2003One of the most fascinating aspects of Long Time is the glimpse it affords of obscure but remarkably talented photographers. -- Creative Loafing, Felicia Feaster, 8 January 2003Revelatory and exceptional. -- Owen Edwards, Smithsonian, January 2003The collection...reveals the artistry and compassion of a talented group of photographers. -- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Bob Hoover, 2 February 2003

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Product details

Hardcover: 480 pages

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company; 1st Edition edition (December 2002)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0393049434

ISBN-13: 978-0393049435

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11.4 x 1.3 x 10.2 inches

Shipping Weight: 4.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)

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4.5 out of 5 stars

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This is a bit cheeky, but after reading this book, which I got as a gift, I was reminded of how my ex would always complain about his "Playboy" when it would come."Such great pictures," he would say, "now why the hell do they think they can improve them with a lot of pretentious writing."I felt the same way about this book. Except that the pictures weren't as good as Playboy, either.

The book is valuable for its wealth of photographs of urban as well as rural America during the depression years, but marred a little by the rather snide tone of the author's account of the establishment of the Farm Security Administration under Roosevelt, and also by the devotion of a few too many pages to photos by Jack Delano, which are interesting but not in the same league as the work of Arthur Rothstein, Carl Mydans, Ben Shahn, Dorothea Lange, Russell Lee and some others. The author could have paid his debt for friendship and information from by the photographer's son a little less lavishly ( and there may have been a reason why some of the photos were not previously published ). Still, the book is a treasure trove of wonderful images and I'm happy I bought it.

One of our national treasures - both literally and figuratively speaking - is "The File", a collection of 145,000 photographic exposures, most of which were taken between 1935 and 1943 under the auspices of the Farm Security Administration. The photographic project was run out of Washington, D.C. by an odd bureaucrat named Roy Stryker, but he had the luck or talent to attract and supervise some of the best American photojournalists of the 20th Century - including Jack Delano, Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Russell Lee, Gordon Parks, Carl Mydans, Arthur Rothstein, and Ben Shahn. In 1943, The File was transferred to the Library of Congress, where it is now the cornerstone of the Library's Prints and Photographs Division.LONG TIME COMING is a handsome book that contains over 400 images from The File, one per page, along with about 50 pages of text from Michael Lesy discussing Stryker, the history of the FSA project, and its importance in the development of documentary photography. The photographs are the reason to buy or browse through the book. When most people hear "FSA photographs", they think of images of the Depression, especially the "Migrant Mother" by Dorothea Lange, depicting a grim mother staring into the distance over the left shoulder of the photographer, elbow on knee and hand to chin, and her two children with their heads turned away from the camera and their faces burrowed into her shoulders. LONG TIME COMING contains similar photographs of poverty and dogged determination (though not "Migrant Mother" or other familiar photographs from the Depression or Dust Bowl), but its contents are not limited to the downtrodden, the poor, the farmer, and the migrant. There are few if any photographs of the rich and glamorous, but otherwise LONG TIME COMING contains a nearly comprehensive cross-section of life in the United States between 1935 and 1943 - cities, small towns, amusement parks, stock shows, coal mines, carnivals, country funerals, soda fountains, slums, etc.The text, unfortunately, does not measure up to the photographs. It is woefully (dis)organized and, for my money, too informal. Nonetheless, one can glean from it what probably are the significant points to the story of Stryker, the FSA, and The File. Lesy does note, in summary, that "the turmoil and disruptions of the Thirties provoked a kind of national identity crisis--a crisis that resulted in a search for authentic roots, and for signs and symbols of perseverance and rebirth." LONG TIME COMING exemplifies the truth of that observation. Its photographs depict a land, a people, and a time that have now become part of the psychic heritage of (many) Americans.The book, alas, is not cheap, but it is intelligently and sturdily put together and a copy should withstand many years of frequent use in a library. LONG TIME COMING deserves a spot in any general purpose or secondary school or college library. Indeed, I can see it as an instructive adjunct to any course on the history of the United States in the 20th Century. It also should be a valued (and, unlike many coffee-table books of photographs, an oft-browsed) addition to any home library.

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A stunning book of 410 photos from the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information archives now in the Library of Congress. This book takes a different approach to the many others which use FSA photos, here you will not see many of those well-known images of poverty in rural areas, the effects of land erosion, the plight of Southern sharecroppers, not even the greatest FSA photo of all (in my view) Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother but instead a comprehensive and wonderful showing of the ordinary and everyday in American life from 1935 to 1943.All these fascinating photos are divided into eight sections, City Life, Hard Work, Hometowns, Hill Towns, Coal Towns, Family Farms, Hard Times and Amusements. Most of them are from 1938 to 1943 so there are few by Walker Evans who left the FSA in 1937 but plenty by Russell Lee, the most prolific FSA photographer. The photos (well printed on excellent paper) are presented one to a page with a caption, photographer's name and date centred below. Because these are FSA images they depict a very detailed picture of everyday life and in 1941 when the US joined the Second World War it was decided to expand the coverage to record the war effort and life in general. This is the main reason I like the book plus the eighty-two photos never published before.Between the eight photo sections author Lesy writes (in a very honest way) various essays about Roy Stryker, who ran of the FSA and how he organised the photographers work through his exacting shooting scripts (these were partially inspired by Robert Lynd and his 1925 book, `Middletown' based on Muncie, Indiana which turns out to be average small town USA, tough luck Peoria, Illinois!) how this huge file of images was distributed to the media, correspondence between Stryker and the photographers and more. I found one section (pages 230 to 235) called `The Middletown Spirit' very intriguing, it is a list of the things that the folks of `Middletown' (or small towns anywhere) believed in and as well as the goodness that one would expect it also reflects an alarming collection of deeply conservative beliefs, ethnic prejudice and a Horatio Alger like deference towards business. The back of the book lists all the negative numbers so you can order prints from the Library of Congress and in fact see 60,000 photos from the FSA/OWI collection on the Library's `American Memory' website.Because of what these photographs show, the quality of presentation and production, I think this will become the definitive reference book for the period. A glorious reminder of the American spirit.***FOR AN INSIDE LOOK click 'customer images' under the cover.

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