Way We Were: New England Then New England Now - Hardcover

Okrent, Daniel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1555843581 ISBN 13: 9781555843588

Publisher: Grove Pr, 1989

Synopsis

Photographs document everyday life in New England during the late forties and early fifties, and are accompanied by comments on how things have changed since then

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These photographs of New England are culled from the University of Louisville's archives of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey. Under the direction of Roy Stryker, the company sponsored a photographic documentary project in the latter 1940s and early 1950s on the role of oil in the life of America. Photojournalists Esther Bubley, John Vachon, Gordon Parks, Todd Webb, and others interpreted the assignment as a documentary on the life of the era, with or without the Esso sign. Okrent, the editor of New England Monthly , visited the towns and the descendants of those originally portrayed and relates the fates of farms, family stores, and lives from an "America at the last moment before television, before suburbanization, before the enormous democratizing force of the GI Bill was fully felt." His observations provide a link to the real focus of the book: the strong and evocative black-and-white photographs of Americans at work and play from another era.
- Ann Copeland, formerly with Drew Univ. Lib., Madison, N.J.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Grove Pr
• Publication date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1555843581
• ISBN 13: 9781555843588
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 179