Below the line, living poor in America, photographs and interviews by Eugene Richards ; text editor, Christiane Bird ; story researcher, Janine Altongy
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Below the line, living poor in America, photographs and interviews by Eugene Richards ; text editor, Christiane Bird ; story researcher, Janine Altongy
Language
eng
Illustrations
illustrationsportraits
Index
no index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Below the line
Oclc number
15162208
Responsibility statement
photographs and interviews by Eugene Richards ; text editor, Christiane Bird ; story researcher, Janine Altongy
Sub title
living poor in America
Summary
"In the tradition of the classic photodocumentaries that emerged from the Depression years and the 1960s, Below the Line depicts the deplorable extent of poverty that exists in the United States today. In early 1986, Consumers Union commissioned esteemed photographer Eugene Richards to travel across the country to document the dimensions of American poverty. In 144 unforgettable photographs and 14 essays, Richards captures the hoplessness of urban youth, the struggle of Midwestern farmers, the squalor of day-to-day existence for Mexican-American immigrants living in Texas border towns. The men and women of Shantytown on new York City's Lower East Side, a fifteen year old Chicago girl with two children, a Korean war vet and ex-Green Beret living in a Boston shelter, these people tell their stories in a text culled from mroe than one hundred hours of interviews, accompanied by Richards' exceptional portraits."
Table Of Contents
Gann Valley, South Dakota -- North Philadelphia, Pennsylvania -- East Orange, New Jersey -- Still House Hollow, Tennessee -- Chicago, Illinois -- Orrtanna, Pennsylvania -- Douglas, Wyoming -- Harlem, New York City -- Hughes, Arkansas -- Long Island Shelter, Boston, Massachusetts -- Creighton, South Dakota -- Inglewood, California -- Shantytown, Lower East Side, New York City -- Brownsville, Texas
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- Economic history
- Documentary photography -- United States
- United States -- Economic conditions -- 1981-2001 -- Pictorial works
- Poor
- Social conditions
- Since 1980
- Interviews
- Richards, Eugene
- Case studies
- Portraits
- Poor -- United States -- Portraits
- Poor -- United States -- Interviews
- United States
- Poor -- United States -- Pictorial works
- Pictorial works
- Documentary photography
- Fotografie
- United States -- Social conditions -- 1980- -- Pictorial works
- United States -- Social conditions -- 1980- -- Case studies
- United States -- Economic conditions -- 1981-2001 -- Case studies
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- Contributor2
- Creator1
- Genre4
- Subject21
- Economic history
- Documentary photography -- United States
- United States -- Economic conditions -- 1981-2001 -- Pictorial works
- Poor
- Social conditions
- Since 1980
- Interviews
- Richards, Eugene
- Case studies
- Portraits
- Poor -- United States -- Portraits
- Poor -- United States -- Interviews
- United States
- Poor -- United States -- Pictorial works
- Pictorial works
- Documentary photography
- Fotografie
- United States -- Social conditions -- 1980- -- Pictorial works
- United States -- Social conditions -- 1980- -- Case studies
- United States -- Economic conditions -- 1981-2001 -- Case studies
- Bildband
- Content1
- Other version1
- Mapped to1