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"Documenting" East Texas: Spirit of Place in the Photography of Keith Carter

This thesis examines similarities in photographs made by the contemporary photographer Keith Carter and photographers active with the Farm Security Administration during the 1930s. Stylistically and in function, works by Carter and these photographers comment on social and cultural values of a region. This thesis demonstrates that many of Carter's black and white photographs continue, contribute to, and expand traditions in American documentary photography established in the 1930s. These traditions include the representation of a specific geographic place that evokes the spirit of a time and place, and the ability to communicate to a viewer certain social conditions and values related to such a place.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc2625
Date08 1900
CreatorsLutz, Cullen Clark
ContributorsWay, Jennifer, Berry, Nancy, Gleeson, Larry
PublisherUniversity of North Texas
Source SetsUniversity of North Texas
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis or Dissertation
FormatText
RightsPublic, Copyright, Lutz, Cullen Clark, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.

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