Everyone Had Cameras - Street, Richard Steven
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The relationship between California farmworkers and the photographers who have documented their lives American photographers have been fascinated by the lives of California farmworkers since the time of the daguerreotype. From the earliest Gold Rush–era images and the documentary photographs taken during the Great Depression to digital images today, photographers and farmworkers in California have had a complicated and continuously changing bond. In Everyone Had Cameras, Richard Steven Street provides a comprehensive history of the significant presence of California farmworkers in the visual…mehr

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The relationship between California farmworkers and the photographers who have documented their lives American photographers have been fascinated by the lives of California farmworkers since the time of the daguerreotype. From the earliest Gold Rush–era images and the documentary photographs taken during the Great Depression to digital images today, photographers and farmworkers in California have had a complicated and continuously changing bond. In Everyone Had Cameras, Richard Steven Street provides a comprehensive history of the significant presence of California farmworkers in the visual culture of America. Street’s account spans 150 years and sheds a new perspective on some of America’s photographic masters, such as Carleton E. Watkins, Ansel Adams, and Dorothea Lange, and brings to light heretofore unknown and unheralded work by perceptive amateurs, socially committed journeymen, digital documentarians, commercial propagandists, and left-wing critics. Through their artistry, these figures powerfully revealed—and at times obscured—the human cost of industrial agriculture and cheap food. Photographers are deeply embedded in the farmworker story, Street shows, and it cannot be understood without paying attention to their ever-evolving vision. Indeed, cameras are so prevalent on picket lines and at strikes and demonstrations that it is normal to see not only photojournalists but also police, protesters, and growers awaiting a decisive—or incriminating—moment to capture. Deftly weaving the remarkable diversity of field photography into this story of labor activism, Everyone Had Cameras establishes a new history of California photography while chronicling the impact that this visual medium—called by some the common currency of modern dialogue—has had on a vast, dispossessed class of American workers.
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Richard Steven Street is founder, owner, and manager of Streetshots agricultural photography, a former Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellow at the National Gallery of Art, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, and currently a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow. He has devoted the past thirty years to creating and studying the visual record of rural California. He is the author of Beasts of the Field: A Narrative History of California Farmworkers, 1769–1913; Photographing Farmworkers in California; Organizing for Our Lives: New Voices from Rural Communities; A Kern County Diary: The Forgotten Photographs of Carleton E. Watkins; and the forthcoming Knife Fight City and Other Essays: An Independent Life Adrift in the California Agro-industry at Millennium’s End.