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The Dust Bowl Through the Lens: How Photography Revealed and Helped Remedy a National Disaster
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About The Dust Bowl Through The Lens: How Photography
Product Description The Dust Bowl was a time of hardship and environmental and economic disaster. More than 100 million acres of land had turned to dust, causing hundreds of thousands of people to seek new homes and opportunities thousands of miles away, while millions more chose to stay and battle nature to save their land.FDR's army of photographers took to the roads to document this national crisis. Their pictures spoke a thousand words, and a new form of storytelling- photojournalism-was born. With the help of iconic photographs from Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, Arthur Rothstein, and many more, Martin Sandler tells the story of a nation as it endured its darkest days and the extraordinary courage and spirit of those who survived. From School Library Journal Starred Review. Grade 4–8—This excellent photo-essay traces the history of the Dust Bowl from its causes to its resolution. In tandem, Sandler treats the role of the budding field of photojournalism. Forty-four spreads feature a page of clear, direct text with a large, well-reproduced image, many of which are set on color pages. Many of these, such as Dorothea Lange's "Migrant Mother" and Arthur Rothstein's "Fleeing a Dust Storm," have become iconic. The author repeatedly makes the point that it was in large part the force of these pictures that motivated the Roosevelt administration to take action in aid of both Dust Bowl farmers and migrant workers. Seldom has the connection between the arts and the general quality of life been made so clear. The text deals equally with those who fled the decimated Bread Basket for California and those who waited out the devastation and dust. Throughout, the use of primary sources is superb, with quotations from affected citizens, the photojournalists themselves, political and entertainment figures, and writers, giving a multifaceted picture of a seminal time in United States history. This book gives a more general picture of the time than Jerry Stanley's Children of the Dust Bowl (Crown, 1993) and is focused more specifically than Russell Freedman's Children of the Great Depression (Clarion, 2005). It provides a lesson in strength and perseverance that is certainly applicable today.— Ann Welton, Helen B. Stafford Elementary, Tacoma, WA END From Booklist Sandler, whose previous books include America through the Lens (2005) and Lincoln through the Lens (2008), has found, in America’s Dust Bowl, a natural subject for the series’ photo-essay format. Well researched and dramatically illustrated, the book explains how settlement, farming methods, and weather together devastated the southern plains and, by extension, the people who lived there, how they reacted, how the government responded, how the Dust Bowl finally ended, and who created the photographic record of the period. Each double-page spread uses a heading and a period quote to open a new topic, discusses it in a few paragraphs of text, and illustrates it with a large photo and a small one. Detailed captions comment on the photos. Telling the story with intelligence and sensitivity, Sandler honors the people who lived through the disaster and the great photographers of the 1930s, who documented the dramatic story for the people of their own time and created a record that transcends that time. Grades 5-9. --Carolyn Phelan Review "Sandler's perceptive words have their own elegance....This will be an excellent tool for history classes; and browsers, too, will be caught up in Lincoln's story." -Booklist, starred review"This appealing, accessible title will be savored from beginning to end." -SLJ, starred review"Sandler offers a valuable and interesting perspective that stands as an essential purchase for libraries." -Kirkus Reviews About the Author Martin W. Sandler is the author of Imprisoned, Lincoln Through the Lens, The Dust Bowl Through the Lens, and Kennedy Through the Lens. He has won five Emmy Awards for his writing for television and is the author of more t
