New Deal documentation of the Great Depression helps set the Spare A Dime stage.
The Great Depression is one of the most heavily documented time periods in American history. The National Archives holds tens of thousands of prints and negatives created by New Deal programs (like Dorothea Lange's iconic Migrant Mother, a series of 1936 images taken of Florence Owens Thompson and her children in Nipomo, California, at left).
Photographers typically worked for the Farm Security Administration (like Lange) or in one of three WPA divisions: Creative Projects, Art Teaching, or Allied Art Projects, which documented other WPA programs. Nationwide, WPA's Information Service coordinated state level activities and sent photographers into the field to create journalistic photo essays.
Spare A Dime features many of these historical photographs, plus our own versions replicated with our constituents and communities affected by the "Great Recession." Before each song in the cycle, and audio story from COSACOSA's community constituents sets the stage with WPA photographs that cross-fade into their modern-day equivalents.
Check out the visual parallels across time at Spare A Dime at PIFA 2013! Tickets are on sale now!
Photographers typically worked for the Farm Security Administration (like Lange) or in one of three WPA divisions: Creative Projects, Art Teaching, or Allied Art Projects, which documented other WPA programs. Nationwide, WPA's Information Service coordinated state level activities and sent photographers into the field to create journalistic photo essays.
Spare A Dime features many of these historical photographs, plus our own versions replicated with our constituents and communities affected by the "Great Recession." Before each song in the cycle, and audio story from COSACOSA's community constituents sets the stage with WPA photographs that cross-fade into their modern-day equivalents.
Check out the visual parallels across time at Spare A Dime at PIFA 2013! Tickets are on sale now!