| Times of Sorrow and Hope: A Presentation
University Park, PA -- Join us in celebrating the publication of Times
of Sorrow and Hope: Documenting Everyday Life in Pennsylvania During the Depression
and World War II, A Photographic Record by Allen Cohen and Ronald L. Filippelli,
on Monday, July 14, 2003, 4:30 p.m., in Foster Auditorium, 101 Pattee Library,
University Park. A book signing will follow brief remarks by Cohen and Filippelli.
Books will be available for sale or bring you personal copies.
Between 1935 and 1946, a group of photographers working for the federal government
fanned out across the country to record American life in pictures. Among them
were some of the great documentary photographers in American history—including
Marjory Collins, Jack Delano, Sheldon Dick, Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Ben
Shahn, and Marion Post Wolcott. This massive photographic project, carried
out primarily under the auspices of the Farm Security Administration (FSA)
and the Office of War Information (OWI) and later preserved at the Library
of Congress, was unrivaled in scope: no comparable attempt to document life
in this country has ever been made.
The book, devoted to the Pennsylvania photographs in the FSA-OWI collection,
is published by the Penn State University Press—Keystone Book, with a foreword
by Miles Orvell. It has also been developed into an online database of photographs.
Cohen is a retired librarian from the University of California, Santa Barbara,
a bibliographer, and a film historian whose most recent book is a co-authored
work, John Huston: A Guide to References and Resources (1997).
Filippelli is professor of Labor Studies and Industrial Relations as well as the associate dean for Administration and Undergraduate Studies in the College of the Liberal Arts at Penn State. His most recent book is a co-authored work, Cold
War in the Working Class: The Rise and Decline of the United Electrical Workers (1995), and he has been a frequent reviewer for The
International Journal of the History of Photography.
Photographs from the book are on display in the University Libraries' main exhibit area, in Pattee Library, through August 15, 2003. "The Works Progress Administration Era and the American Image," an exhibit of related materials by the Penn State University Press is on display in the Diversity Studies Room, 109 Pattee Library, during the same time period.
Times of Sorrow and Hope provides a unique, comprehensive visual record of Pennsylvania history as the state struggled through one of its darkest periods and confronted new economic, political, and social challenges.
For more information, call 814-865-2258.
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Editor's Contact:
Catherine Grigor, 814-865-0401
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