Everyone Had Cameras – Photography and Farmworkers in California, 1850–2000

Everyone Had CamerasPhotography and Farmworkers in California, 18502000\nAuthor(s): Richard Steven Street\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Minnesota Press, United States\nImprint: University of Minnesota Press\nISBN-13: 9780816649679, 978-0816649679\nSynopsis\nThe relationship between California farmworkers and the photographers who have documented their lives\n\nAmerican photographers have been fascinated by the lives of California farmworkers since the time of the daguerreotype. From the earliest Gold Rushera images and the documentary photographs taken during the Great Depression to digital images today, photographers and farmworkers in California have had a complicated and continuously changing bond. In Everyone Had Cameras, Richard Steven Street provides a comprehensive history of the significant presence of California farmworkers in the visual culture of America.\n\nStreets account spans 150 years and sheds a new perspective on some of Americas photographic masters,.