Outstanding PBS documentary

Subject: Outstanding PBS documentary
From: katlaughing
Date: 19 Aug 08 - 12:06 AM

Our PBS just showed a new program called "Documenting the Face of America." It was outstanding and reminded me of Art Thieme and his photos which have gone to be housed at the Smithsonian at its request.

If you have a chance to see this, do so. Click Here and here's the blurb:

"Documenting the Face of America" tells the inspirational "behind the lens" stories from some of the most celebrated photographers in history. Narrated by Julian Bond, the program highlights the forgotten collective pieces of our past. This story celebrates the courage and vision of legendary photographers and artists such as Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, Gordon Parks, Marion Post Wolcott, Russell Lee and others who worked with the U.S. government under the unorthodox leadership of Roy Stryker from 1935 to 1943. Together they changed the course of photography, but more important, changed history, as Americans saw what life was like across the nation for the first time - from North to South, from East to West, for rich and poor and for black and white.

We have Stryker to thank for a even having the archives to view. There were many who wanted to destroy the whole dept. of gov. under which he and his photographers documented our country and its peoples.

Art, is they do a follow up to more recent times, they should include you and your photos!!