Do We Need A New Documerica?

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Do We Need A New Documerica?

In the 1970s, the EPA hired a bunch of photographers to document what they found interesting. The result is a huge archive with almost no modern parallel.

via NPR.org: http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2013/04/10/176670652/do-we-need-a-new-documerica?ft=1&f=97635953

Documerica was a simple concept. In the 1970s, a newly created Environmental Protection Agency hired a bunch of freelancers to document environmental issues around the country. It wasn’t the first time the government had subsidized photography. A few decades prior, the Farm Security Administration sponsored a similar program to catalog the Great Depression.

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